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...just jump to the night of August first, when we landed in Bombay. We found out right away that there wasn't much chance of our "going up the Gulf" to Mesopotamia for a few months, at least, because the staff there is now complete. To tell the truth, neither Nash nor I were much disappointed. We had met a few men who had really been there since we left New York, and there didn't seem to be much romance in going to the Garden of Eden until the summer heat had subsided and the thermometer wasn't much...
...interesting features of our work is its newness. Since the Indian Association hasn't taken up this field before, we can do anything we want to. And since, with the exception of one "movie" at Murree and a Y. M. C. A. just being put up at Rewat today, August 27, we have a monopoly on the amassment business for a radius of 46 miles; we don't have to be very clever to arrange things. In particular, Nash's job is to run the billiards, ping pong, checkers, chess (with occasional tournaments in all of them...
Between three and four hundred undergraduates and graduates of the University went on the Naval Training Cruise for Civilians, which started on August 15. The fleet of training vessels consisted of nine ships, the Rhode Island flagship; Virginia, Kearsarge, Louisiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine and New Jersey, all battleships of the Atlantic reserve fleet. The 2300 volunteers formed about half of the crews of these ships, the other half being regular sailors...
...fleet of nine ships was mobilized at Montauk, on the eastern end of Long Island, and on August 20 proceeded to Black Island, where the Volunteer Blue Fleet was organized, which attempted to prevent the landing of 40,000 men by the Red Fleet somewhere north of Cape Hatteras. Twenty torpedo boats, together with colliers, supply ships, submarines and an aeroplane completed the fleet. The torpedo boats were sent out to scout for the enemy, and reported its location east of New Jersey, whither the battleships were sent. After several minor fights the Blues were defeated in a large engagement...
Gore and Standish Halls, and possibly Smith, will be opened on July 7 for the use of students in the Summer School, and will remain open until August 19. The Smith Halls dining room will be used...