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...University crews will go to Princeton for a week of practice during the spring vacation this year, according to an announcement made last night. Coach Stevens will be in charge of the oarsmen and C. H. Weymer '27, second assistant manager, and a rigger to take care of the two shells, will complete the squad...
...Author. William McFee is a stocky man, blond, with vivid sea-blue eyes. Son of a British sea-captain, he was born, in 1881, in a three-masted square-rigger, Erin's Isle, homeward bound from India. Educated in English schools, a prodigious reader, he found the lure of the sea was in his blood. So at 24 he qualified as Engineer and ever since has cruised about. Most of his writing was done in the Chief Engineer's room of his various ships and was sandwiched in between long hours with engine pumps, port boilers, bilge rams...
...which is large enough to allow people to walk about on her decks and go down into her cabin. The model is fully equipped with the things that would ordinarily have been taken on a voyage, from whaling charts to sails. It is particularly interesting now that the square-rigger has practically disappeared from the seas...
...addition to Coach Stevens, W. C. Ladd '26, second assistant crew manager, and James Connor, rigger, will go to Philadelphia. The sixteen oarsmen and the two coxswains who are to make the trip follow...
...urges a development of a great commercial navy, but it cannot shift the advantage of the English ship owner. Proximity of coal and iron to the ship yards is an appreciable factor, just as the nearness of timber to the New England harbors helped to make the old square-rigger a cheap instrument of conveyance. But the dominant factor is the place of the English export coal trade. A "tramp" carrying bulky raw goods to England for manufacture can always count upon a return cargo of coal; and to be profitable a "tramp" must never sail empty...