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...field in which they are really interested. Although it does not commit them to lifelong imprisonment, changes later on cannot be made without the loss of much valuable time, and care now will pay large dividends later on. Above all, the worst thing they can do is to drift into any field at all, expecting to have an education shoved down their throats, as it were. Freshmen owe it to themselves to use their common sense during the next few weeks and come to an intelligent decision...
Meanwhile, the huge floe on which the camp stood had broken off from the polar ice pack, was drifting on a zigzag southward course which veered somewhat to the west (see map), in currents which had been charted previously but whose speed had been underestimated. Some days the drift was six or seven miles. As it entered warmer water, the floe began to break up. Last fortnight a hurricane reduced it to 200 yards by 300. Last week it was down to 50 yards by 70. When the part of the floe on which their tent stood was submerged...
Click-click! Click-click! They were putting on speed now. Shortly the train slowed to cross the Thames, and slide into New London Station. The Vagabond thought about the boat races. Then he let his eyes drift out over the harbor, which was darkning now as the sun moved west. Soon the train was moving again, steaming for New Haven...
...marlin spike. In the scuffle he went overboard, into the shark-infested waters where he had thrown dead Dwight Faulding. Then, some 500 miles away from home off the Mexican coast, without fuel for the auxiliary engines and a mainsail disabled by storms. the skipperless Aafje turned to drift back...
Except for clarifying the issues involved in a union of churches. The Edinburgh Conference "didn't get much done." More success could be achieved by "saying our prayers together" than by debates around the conference table. Dean Sperry pointed toward the drift toward unity in this country as a hopeful sign of the eventual success of the movement...