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...shipboard service in the seven seas, of fighting in Haiti and Nicaragua, of duty in Samoa and Shanghai. He reads that history in campaign ribbons on oldtimers' blouses, in battle streamers on the regimental flags, in the Corps motto, "Semper Fidelis." He is first repelled, then fascinated by the shout of a sweating sergeant to his bleeding, hesitant platoon at Chateau-Thierry: "Come on, you - , do you want to live forever?" When a detachment shoves off for service on a foreign shore, oldtimers who have been left out-both officers and men-pack their duffle and carry it down...
...preferred rum to fruit juice. In the end he fell a victim to meat eaters. On one of the islands which he had named after the inventor of the sandwich (the Earl of Sandwich, First Lord of the Admiralty), the proponent of lime juice was captured by cannibals. From shipboard that night his men watched the telltale barbecue fires. Next day they cowed the Kanakas into surrendering the indigestible portions that remained of the Pacific's greatest explorer-his hands, some bones from his legs, part of his scalp, part of his skull...
...addition to the visits and conferences now being arranged the tour will include a course of study on Latin American conditions and problems equivalent to a double course in the Summer School. Classes will be held on shipboard and final examinations will be given for those who wish credit from the trip...
...immense recoil and recuperator gear; fourth, incidental equipment of the gun; and fifth, the gun barrel which appeared to be some 45 feet long with a calibre of ten inches. A retired naval officer of a Great Power exclaimed: "I have seen plenty of guns like that on shipboard, but I have never before seen one dragged through the streets...
Open to both men and women students, the course will include daily intermal lectures by Conant on shipboard and at historic stopping places...