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Like old Captain Joshua Slocum almost 40 years before him, like salty Harry Pidgeon, who followed Herman Melville's Typee course, like seagoing Soldier-Tennist Alain Gerbault-cockle-shell Magellans all-Dwight Long had set his sails to go round the world. He had $200 cash, a guarantee of $25 a month for dispatches to the Seattle Star, and a companion who had studied spherical trigonometry and could qualify as a navigator. At Honolulu they parted. There Veteran Harry Pidgeon took Long out on the sea one Sunday afternoon, taught him how to plot his own course. In Hawaii...
...throbbed against the skull, wore down the bone. The throbbing produced the noises in his head. At the university, the noises were picked up by a microphone, electrically amplified so that they resounded through a spacious auditorium. Surgical repair of the damaged artery was deemed necessary to relieve Miner Slocum of his trouble...
...Hara in New York and will return middle part next week. To best my knowledge Mr. O'Hara has never has been enrolled as student at Harvard and has never made statement that he was. He did operate News Service out of Crimson several years ago with Joseph Slocum. Margaret T. Boodry, Secretary...
...Harvard sports endowment fund has reached a total of $167,000 and will be increased by $25,000 as soon as the bequest of Thomas W. Slocum '90 is received, President Conant announced last night at the Varsity Club Dinner...
...feature of the fall rowing program will be the Thomas W. Slocum Cup race for Freshman intramural crews to be held during the first week of November. The names of the winners are engraved on the cup. There will also be two singles regattas one for the Houses and one open university regatta. What there will be of rowing eights will be informal and will have as its aim the development of oarsmen for the spring House boats...