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...That Admiral Rainier was not an obscure villain. In 1778, as a lieutenant in command of a sloop, he captured a large American privateer after a hard action in which he was severely wounded; soon after he was sent to the East Indies, rose steadily in rank to Admiral, retired, became a Member of Parliament and died leaving one tenth of his large estate to reduce the national debt of Great Britain...
...history is written, the chapter on exploration will owe much of its material to the deeds of men inspired by Jack London and by the famous Traprock, skipper of the good ship, "Kawa." Only a few weeks ago a Frenchman sailed across the Atlantic in a thirty-foot sloop, inspired, as he said, by London's "Cruise of the Shark," and unconsciously perhaps by the romantic voyage of the Kawa into the South Seas. And now three more intrepid spirits, two of them graduates of the University, are planning a trip to the fever-haunted regions of the upper Amazon...
...some what out of the rushing current of modern American life, then it is his duty to utilize the perspective which he thereby gains. For finally he will hurl himself into that very current; it is the last sensation one can make against Harvard graduates that they have stood sloop from the world of action. But let us frankly avow the debt of Harvard to the particular state of mind that we call New England; let us accept it as our respected province to infuse something of its own dignity into American life, no merits where we come from. HARRY...
...power boat belonging to Robert F. Herrick '90 returned to Red Top today, and the "Ishkoodah," a 35-foot sloop owned by O. Iselin, Jr., '11, anchored just below Red Top dock...
...several of the best political leaders of the present. An article of historical value is "Cambridge and Harvard College in 1817," by Charles Warren '89. It is a description of Harvard University at the period when the winter store of wood was brought from "down east" by the University sloop "Harvard...