Word: shipwreckers
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...Register is in the position of a Robinson Crusoe who has discovered a volume containing instructions not only for the conduct of his life on his island, but also easily followed directions for regaining the outside world. There would be no more excuse for such a favored victim of shipwreck to remain alone on his island, than there is for a Freshman or an Unclassified student with access to the Register to fall to discover the manifold opportunity. Harvard holds not only for others but for him. To quote the book itself, "There is a whip in Harvard for every...
...Broken Barriers, or Red Love on a Blue Island," is perhaps even more mirth-compelling in its descriptions of utterly foolish incidents following a shipwreck; treated with a vigorous hand, it hurls chunks of humor, as it were, at the reader, who, if he be in the right mood, finds his vision obscured at times by tears of laughter. Uncontrollable chuckling seizes him at Mr. Brown's ludicrously chivalrous attitude to his fair companion on the desert isle and their common adventures it is only a pity that the ending is rather weak...
...Tormo the Trout" by Mr. Weston is a daintily worded and slightly mystie sketch of the sort that is pleasant to read but which leaves no particular impression on the reader's mind. Mr. McCormick's vivid study based on a shipwreck makes a definite impression. So little emphasis is laid on the first phase of the story, however, that the plot does not receive the full benefit of the sharp contrast as the character develops...
...divine character. Bacon says on this aspect of the theme: "It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such as is unworthy of Him; for the one is unbelief, the other contumely." Dr. Horr also quoted, in defence of his argument from "The Shipwreck" in the "Colloquies" of Erasmus...
...Additional ships should be ordered by next Congress for - (1) Usual time for building a battle-ship is 5 years. - (2) Cramp can not construct the best in less than 2 1/2 years: Higgins in Cong. Rec. Vol. 27, p. 3576. - (b) Provision for - (1) Sudden shipwreck, cf. Reina Regente. - (2) Ordinary wear and tear. - (3) Filling place of older ships made nearly useless by modern improvements...