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...anger, relief. In Washington, Navy officials were shocked, embarrassed, furious. Secretary Wilbur, in particular, had to answer an irate telegram from Joseph Pool, the 15-year-old's father, asking how such things could happen. Since Navy tradition mentions only a wife in every port and none on shipboard and the regulations say very little about human nature, there was nothing that Secretary Wilbur could say beyond expressing regret...
Lectures will be held on shipboard and elsewhere. Sailing from New York July 14 on the Tuscania, the itinerary will include visits to London, Birmingham. Sheffield, Liege, Dusseldorf, Cologne and Paris. The return trip will be made on the Berangaria, arriving in New York August 24. The tour will be taken as part of the individual extension program of summer work, undertaken by the various colleges and universities participating...
...Aiken produces a flood less bewildering than Ulysses but quite as impressive. The narrative of Blue Voyage is simply that William Demarest, young U. S. writer and moral coward, sails second class for England to see Cynthia Battiloro, whom he worships but thinks he loves. He is tempted on shipboard by Mrs. Faubion, a fellow-passenger in the second class, but resists her frankly sensual charms; when lo! stealing a walk on the first class promenade, he encounters Cynthia, who announces her engagement to someone else. Demarest slinks back to his own deck writes Cynthia a series of decreasingly abject...
...yesterday they were joined on the Stadium cinders by the sprinters and weight men, all of whom will practice daily until they sail for England on June 25. Arrangements have also been made to enable the Harvard-Yale track men to continue practice on shipboard...
That nowhere better than on shipboard could astronomy and navigation be taught; nowhere better than in foreign ports and capitals, economics, foreign trade, languages...