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Captain Cook was born among the folk at the tip of Cape Cod. It was natural for him to take to the sea. He was a sailor boy t eleven, before the mast at fourteen, and captain of a fisherman at twenty, mate of a whaling ship at twenty-six, and master at thirty. For twenty years this rugged "toiler of the sea" chased the whale south to the Falkland in the Antarctic Ocean and north to the Banks Land in the Arctic following a course traced out upon no chart, avoiding shoals marked by no buoys...
...Naval Training Cruise and the battleships Maine and Kentucky for those from New York. Battleships will also start from Portland, Me., Newport, R. I., Philadelphia, Pa., Norfolk, Va., and Charlestown, S. C. During the first week ships will cruise individually, and the recruits will be taught the rudiments of sailor-craft. During the second week the various ships will come 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...
...College Education," by Mr. Amory, deals with the promising theme of a Maine boy's over-hasty entrance into Harvard, his pathetic attempts to conceal his failure from his father, and his heroism when he takes refuge in the ancestral sailor's life. Sluggish oceans of local color, however, have swamped the hero whom the Atlantic surges could not harm. Condensation is sadly needed. Mr. Putnam would voice the emotions of a Nietzschean Superman trying to behave like an Elizabethan gallant, with disastrous results. His Sonnet (the form should not be divided like a Petrarcan sonnet, into octet and sestet...
...sailor-hero of Mr. Wright McCormack's story in the April Monthly bears in one particular a grotesque resemblance to Byron's Don Juan when that perpetual lover was sent to sea. In the midst of a lament for the beloved from whom he was separated, Don Juan, usually not at a loss for words, was struck dumb...
...Boynton '10 Michael McGovern, U. S. Consul at Periguay, P. W. Dunbar '12 General Frijoles, plotting a revolution, G. D. Pirney '10 Tina, a cigarette girl, H. R. Morse '12 Senorita Pepita d'Argueles, a Uruguayan Attraction, P. C. Squire '11 Sam, distantly related to Sinbad the sailor, G. S. Squibb...