Word: seward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time of day, Yale students had a way of finding out where salty Professor Herbert L. Seward might be. In his office in Strathcona Hall stood the engine-room telegraphs that had once relayed orders from the bridge of the S.S. Leviathan. If the professor was going to class, he rang up "Full Speed Ahead." "Dead Slow" meant out to lunch; "Full Speed Astern" meant a faculty meeting. At the end of each day the professor signaled "Finished Engines...
...students admitted to his classes in naval architecture and marine engineering, this sort of thing seemed quite natural. Professor Seward liked to say that he chose them for "the salt in their veins"; they in turn called him "the Skipper." The son and grandson of sea captains, Skipper Seward had come to know as much about ships as any man could. He had stood on the deck of the German-built Leviathan on its trial run after World War I, had been called in to advise on the raising of the Normandie. He was special wartime consultant to Navy Secretary...
Previous to last February, all items discovered on University property were handed over to the Caretaking Department. It was then up to the student to drop in at Mr. Seward's office two or three times a year and check up on the books, clothing, and sundry other items that he had misplaced throughout the year...