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...competitors. The Sheedy plan will operate in this manner: Under the law the Leviathan may carry some 97 gallons of wines and spirits for medicinal purposes. Beyond the 12-mile-limit on eastbound trips, this supply will be opened and sold to passengers. At Southampton and Cherbourg the chief steward will purchase an assortment of drinks for the westbound trip, plus a supply to replenish the medicinal liquor stock. At the 12-mile-limit the inbound Leviathan will jettison all unconsumed liquor except the medicinal supply under seal which will be held in readiness to refresh passengers on the next...
Died. George Washington Lewis, of Cambridge, Mass., for over 45 years the esteemed Negro steward of the Porcellian Club at Harvard College; in Cambridge, Mass. Ancient and most esoteric of Harvard clubs is Porcellian, founded in 1791.* An oil portrait of Steward Lewis hangs in the clubhouse. Steward Lewis had ten Porcellian pallbearers...
President Dunster once complained that, in addition to doing all the teaching himself, he had to be the students' steward, "and to direct their brewer, baker, buttler, cook, how to proportion their commons." But he soon had help in this, and in the teaching, too; for the best men in the class of 1642 were induced to stay on as resident bachelors and tutors until they took their master's degree. Among this first crop of tutors was the man after whom Downing Street, London, was named. George Downing had all his education in Harvard College; and as we find...
...only the taxes but the students' board and tuition were paid in kind--in corn and wheat, cloth and shoes, cows, and other animals including "a goat of the Watertown rate which died," so that the College steward must have conducted a wholesale store...
...little "midin-ette." Later, she was a part Negress in Lulu Belle. Never married, her engagement has been reported with discouraging frequency; she eats lemons between meals to discourage hoarseness but her voice, nonetheless, is the voice of a dulcet raven. Her father was an army hospital steward and Lenore Ulric was born in New Ulm, Minn...