Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...strong government: the communistic system; and the general bad character of the people. Improvement began at once, although it was necessarily slow. To provide the much-needed food Somers went with Argall to Bermuda. Somers himself died and his crew, disobeying his orders to return to Virginia, set sail for England. Argall, however, procured food from the Indians on the Potomac. In March, 1611, Delaware sailed for England, leaving George Percy in charge of affairs...
...this work of preparation. For it is they who arrange for the contests, conduct the trials, and hold the weekly meetings which give training to the future debaters. But these self-imposed duties of the clubs, which they have so well performed in the past, are like a sail without wind if the clubs carry on the work alone. The greater responsibility rests upon the individuals in the student body. It is they who must arouse a live interest in debating and make the work of the debating clubs effective by attending their meetings and speaking at every opportunity...
Last Wednesday a detachment of students of the M. I. T. summer school of architecture sailed for England on the steamer Cestreau. The remaining members of the school will sail next Saturday. It is proposed to make a two months tour of England and the continent on bicycles, the purpose being to study the cathedral architecture...
...BICYCLE TRIP IN EUROPE.- Mr. Channing Ellery (Columbia '77) is organizing a small party of college men for a Bicycle Tour in Europe during the coming summer. The party will sail June 24 from New York, on the "Brittannic," to be gone 95 days. The plan is to ride through England (stopping at Henley for the regatta), Belgium, Luxemberg, the Rhine and Moselle Valleys, Germany, Switzerland and France, and to visit places of interest on the route. The price of the entire trip will be $550. References given and required. Full particulars may be had by addressing Mr. Ellery...
...BICYCLE TRIP IN EUROPE.- Mr. Channing Ellery (Columbia '77) is organizing a small party of college men for a Bicycle Tour in Europe during the coming summer. The party will sail June 24 from New York, on the "Brittannic," to be gone 95 days. The plan is to ride through England (stopping at Henley for the regatta), Belgium, Luxemberg, the Rhine and Moselle Valleys, Germany, Switzerland and France, and to visit places of interest on the route. The price of the entire trip will be $550. References given and required. Full particulars may be had by addressing Mr. Ellery...