Word: merchants
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Page 6.--Merchant Marine calls for men. University leads in Intercollegiate victories...
...their summer vacations, with concerns engaged in some maritime enterprise. The purpose of this is to arouse the interest of undergraduates in the shipping industry and foreign trade, so that a supply of trained and educated men will soon be furnished to meet the extensive needs of our new merchant marine...
...Marine League is following in the organization of this committee a plan adopted by both England and Germany for the advancement of their merchant marine. In anticipation of the inevitable economic conflict to come and the increase in foreign trade of the United States, our own merchant marine is being provided for in this manner. All applications from undergraduates for a position this summer should be addressed to the National Marine League, 268 Pearl street, New York City...
Even to those who have other fields as their ultimate aim, a year in the Merchant Marine would not be wasted. Many men have found that their adventurous spirit was whetted by war experiences, and are not content to resume the uneventful existence of their pre-war days. For men of this sort, the Merchant Marine, with its voyages and experiences through the seven seas, is the one vehicle by which such restless young Americans can gratify the spirit of pioneering awakened by the world...
...majority of the lads now entering the Merchant Marine realize that they can well afford to spend two or three years seeing the world, with the opportunity to stay and work up to the command of a ship, or to a position of responsibility in a commercial house in a few years more. It is this spirit of adventure that is pulling so many young men away from the humdrum things of life, and that will establish American trade in the far ports of the earth...