Word: ports
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...opportunities for the practical study of the arts of public sanitation offered to students of the School for Health Officers are exceptional. The city of Boston is an important port of entry for foreign and domestic shipping and for immigration, and has fifty or more separate and independent municipalities in its immediate vicinity, while the state of Massachusetts is a community which has long been recognized as standing in the forefront of American commonwealths in almost all aspects of the science and practice of public health. To the advantages of location are added the resources of the University...
...Poughkeepsie, N. Y., as captain of the chess team for 1916-17; Richard Kerens Kenna '17, of Sussex, England, as president of the Chess Club; Everett Tyron King '18, of Cambridge, vice-president; Otto Maass 2G., of Montreal, Canada, second vice-president; and Reginald Gordon Sloane '19, of Port Washington, L. I., N. Y., secretary-treasurer...
...Navy Y. M. C. A. is an organization of national scope, maintaining adequate buildings adapted to its important work in the neighborhood of the larger navy yards in the country. Although the Third Division of the Atlantic Fleet has Boston for a home port, it is alone in being entirely insufficiently equipped in this respect. Over 10,000 different bluejackets and marines come here every year for a period varying from a few days to several months and in many respects the Boston Yard is the second in size in the United States. The present move on foot...
...together and participate in the Atlantic Fleet's War Game. This will offer an unparalleled opportunity of learning the actual battle formations and tactics of the Navy. During the third week the squadron will maneuver along the Atlantic Coast, possibly spending some time at Narragansett Bay, or other central port. For the last week the ships will return to the port of embarkation, where landing parties will be made. Auxiliary motor boats of a fast type will cooperate this last week in port defence maneuvers...
...period of about three weeks, taking part as a squadron unit in the big war game which is to be held off the coast by the Atlantic Fleet. The third week will be spent cruising along the coast, and the fourth week each ship returns to the port from which she started and will take part in conjunction with motor boats, coast artillery, etc., in problems of local defence...