Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scarcely restored to health but convalescent on a round-the-world sea voyage is Sir Austen Chamberlain, a pillar of the Conservative ("Tory") Cabinet in which he is Foreign Sec- retary...
...projected cruise for university students which he himself will conduct, and in which there will be place for a number of Harvard men. In this expedition the quest for international amity will be ancillary to the desire to promote in young gentlemen an Elizabethan love of adventure and the sea...
...number of Harvard students will have an opportunity of going to sea with Count Felix Von Luckner during the summer after next, according to the Count's present plans as outlined to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. The present plans for the cruise will take approximately ten American university students along with five German men through the Panama Canal to the West Coast, for adventure, the group to enjoy enroute participation in gunning, fishing, and harpooning...
...shall take my new 140-foot schooner," said Von Luckner, "with about ten men from different universities, and five German boys, fine fellows, and go on a cruise for real adventure. You Americans don't know enough about life on the sea, you have no real sailormen; your sailors are all in unions, and they go to sea merely because they can get good pay. You should interest your young boys in the sea...
...idea is to interest some college boys, so that when they are men they will encourage training ships on the high sead. I want them to know what it's like to be off by yourself with a few comrades, blue sea shining all around you, blue sky all above you, the fun of bauling ropes, setting sails, keeping a night watch and steering a boat...