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...House Social Service Committee. Today nearly half of the entire PBH program, manning the settlement houses began inauspiciously before the turn of the century when there was no central agency in the College to correlate scattered social consciences. Religious groups alone recruited contingents--for charitable work in the old Sailor's Home. By the Nineties duplication of effort brought amalgamation in the Student Volunteer Committee, which eventually called itself the Social Service Committee and took up its present quarters when Brooks House opened...
...saltiest sailor aboard, Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, chose this moment to admit that he had never been properly initiated. He confessed that in 1898, when he first crossed the line as a midshipman on the U.S.S. Oregon, he had bought off the shellbacks with a keg of beer - a custom then permitted on naval vessels...
...Gude Sir Patrick Spens" in the old Scottish ballad was "the best when sailor that ever sail'd the sea." Nevertheless, when the King assigned him to command a bad-weather cruise to Norway, gude Sir Patrick asked a question his namesake may have cause to repeat: "O wha is this has done this deed and tauld the king...
Femme Fatale. In Philadelphia, Sailor Meldon Bell sheepishly told cops that he had been pushed into a doorway and robbed by a rather "powerful" woman...
...same disease that is affecting the whole world. I call it poison." Pat: "It seems to be worse in India." Gandhi: "Is it? I don't think [so]. . . . Perhaps life is now more secure in India than in the rest of the world." The Mississippi sailor came away impressed. Said he: "Bilbo always sent word that he was too busy...