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...President, by telephone, addressed a banquet of 53 Boy Scouts aboard the Leviathan, on which they were about to sail for Europe. Said he: "Every boy who has the privilege of growing up on a farm learns instinctively the three fundamentals of scout-hood: the first is a reverence for nature . . . the second is a reverence for law . . . the third is a reverence...
...from Portsmouth, flags flying, guns booming, shot the royal yacht Victoria and Albert-King George, the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Connaught aboard. At Spithead, the King reviewed, for the first time since 1914, the British grand fleet, consisting of 194 warships, which steamed past him in four rows, each ten miles long. Ratu Rabici and Ratu Veli, Fiji Chiefs, journeyed to London to converse with King George and to thank him for the benefits of 50 years of British rule. They said that the King expressed great pleasure that the people of Fiji were happy and contented...
...London. At the latter institution he and his wife endowed a chair in Geology in memory of their son who was killed in the War. His several publications include such treatises as Invertebrate Fauna of the Firth of Forth and other studies which he made while diverting himself aboard his yacht, the Runa. His hobby was the destruction of prejudice against seafood. He was wont to say: "The sooner all classes of the population learn to appreciate the value of fish as a highly nutritious food, the better it will be for the welfare of the community...
...Herbert Fuller case presented the exceptional circumstance that both judge and jury knew positively that they had the criminal before them, but were unable to say who he was. There were twelve people aboard the barkentine, including an innocent bystander, when−it was about two in the morning and they were at sea−one of them came into the cabin and killed the captain, his wife and his second mate with an ax. One of the remaining nine must have been responsible, and all of them were brought into court. But the jury was so doubtful that...
...murders which are great in themselves, not because they involve the fact that someone has been killed, but because they involve great situations. Miss Lizzie Borden in her house at Fall River makes an unforgettable picture; and it was not the crime on the Fuller but the situation aboard of her next morning which is absorbing. The difficulty about ordinary newspaper crime is that it is so pitifully undramatic. Mr. Pearson shows that at long intervals murder can rise to the heights...