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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...instruction is substantially that of the "American Practical Navigator," Bowditch. A considerable part of the time will be devoted to the theory and practice in the use of nautical instruments, including the chart, compass--corrections and adjustments--lead, log, and sextant in the determination of the position of a ship at sea. The course also instructs in the determination of time, as well as the latitude and longitude, by means of the sextant...
...August, 1916). The speculator has failed to do it during the current crop year, for reasons above indicated, in part: (3) The speculator is a risk-bearer. Millers and grain buyers in the country "hedge" by short sales on the exchanges when they buy to grind or to ship. If the wheat the miller buys to grind goes down, and with it the price of flour, his loss is offset by a profit on the short sale, and vice versa. When "futures" at Winnipeg were forbidden recently, grain ceased to come in from the farms, as buyers were afraid...
...required will serve as gunners-mates, boatswains'-mates, quartermasters, seamen, engineers, electricians, machinists, riggers, blacksmiths, coppersmiths, riveters, ship-carpenters, firemen, coal passers, cooks, stewards, radio operators, and in many other capacities in coast and off-shore duty, whereby men of the regular navy may be relieved for duties abroad...
Thirty members of the University are scheduled to sail from New York today for France, to serve in the American Ambulance Field Service. These men will go to Bordeaux on the steamer Chicago of the French Line, the same ship that carried the contingent from the University last February. The sailing of the boat has been held over since last Saturday. Beside the men from the University, the Chicago will take two units from the University of California, one from the University of Illinois, one from the Washington University of St. Louis, and 80 other men from colleges and universities...
Germany will pay, this year, or the next, or the next, more fearfully with each year, for the sinking of that great ship. For that sinking, and for the thing she did to Belgium...