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Into Civita Vecchia steamed the S. S. Ryndam. Off trouped the undergraduate body of the University Afloat, 500 strong. In nearby Rome, Pope Pius XI prepared himself to receive an itinerant band of which he had heard: how it had sailed from Manhattan, via Panama, to Los Angeles, Yokohama, Shanghai, Siam, Egypt, Constantinople, Venice; how its members had studied manfully between excursions and receptions on shore; how its full-size college faculty had imparted learning, not only by lectures but by object and project lessons in the countries visited; how a daily newspaper was published aboard ship, edited...
Shortly afterwards, Leys and Plumer returned to Seattle, where they separated. The former became a seaman on the "Bay State" bound for Yokohama, Kobe, Shanghai, and Hongkong. It was at the last port that he went ashore, lured by the prospect of work because of the shipping strike which had just set in and which later became a serious boycott. Leys worked with coolies, attained the dignity of winch-driver, and later made out to the ships daily to cargo with his gang of riff-raff and strike-breakers, returning at night under a pelter of stones from the strikers...
Expelled. Two moons have filled and waned since the S. S. Ryndam steamed from Manhattan, a "floating university" carrying 450 students, males, females (TIME, Sept. 27). Until two weeks ago, classes, lectures, excursions proceeded with fitting decorum. Then, at Yokohama, five students slipped down a hawser, escaped to nearby Tokyo, and put on there a drinking and "necking" spree at the Imperial Hotel. . . . By a vote of the Student Council aboard the Ryndam escapaders were promptly expelled, packed off for the U. S. on a returning steamer as the Ryndam steamed serenely...
...nearly five years Wallace R. Farrington has been governor. His most notable utterance is: "The eventual destiny of Hawaii is to enter the family of states with the full rights of statehood." Two thousand miles from San Francisco, 4,600 from Panama, 4,300 from Manila, 3,400 from Yokohama, these islands are the "cross roads of the Pacific." Sugar is the leading industry...
...Fordyce '26 in Grays 6. The inclusive cost of the trip is $2500. CONDENSED TABLE OF SAILING DISTANCES AND DATES PORTS DISTANCES IN MILES Port to Port From New York Leave New York September 18 New York-Los Angeles October 9 5,200 5,200 Los Angeles-Yokohama November 7 5,600 10,800 Yokohama-Manila December 6 3,800 14,700 Manila-Bombay January 8 6,000 20,800 Bombay-Constantinople February 1 4,000 25,000 Constantinople-Gibraltar March 4 3,400 28,000 Gibraltar-London April 19 3,400 32,000 London-New York...