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...Santa Rosa," was surprised when he won the appointment. At the Naval Academy he played baseball, football. Graduated in 1895, he was assigned to the Asiatic Fleet. During the Philippine insurrection he distinguished himself by going ashore in the dead of night, wading through a swamp and making a sketch from a tree of an enemy camp. After Manila he spent some time in Central America "watching revolutions. ' During the War he trained officers at Annapolis. Admiral Standley has had plenty of experience for his new job in handling for two years the Navy's new instruments...
Near the end of this number appears a delightful sketch by Hamilton Wright on the subject of a red the and an undergraduate poet, and a powerful editorial on Yale's "anti-latin" policy...
...call your attention to certain errors of fact in the biographical sketch of Beniamino Bufano included in your article entitled ''Pacific Progress...
Under the separate cover I send you a copy of Seiji Noma. A sketch of his life, character and enterprises. I wish you will accept with my best compliment, and believe me, most sincere of yours...
Besides Mr. Wroth's piece, one finds an author's reminiscences (Mrs. Buck); two reminiscences about authors (Mr. Wilde & Mr. Brooke): two scholarly essays on bookish subjects: three items of rather fusty Americana: a humorous sketch: and a single woodent...