Word: patroller
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...Patten 3G., an assistant in zoology, has received an appointment from the United States Fisheries Department to go upon a zoological expedition in the North Atlantic. This trip is to be made in conjunction with the work of the "Seneca," a Government patrol vessel...
Last year the large nations of the world agreed to send a skip to the North Atlantic to patrol the region in which the "Titanic" sank, the district traversed by the chief steamship lines. It is the duty of this boat's crew to watch the icebergs and inform the steamships by wireless of the conditions of the route. England equipped and sent out a vessel last year. This year, the United States is sending the derelict destroyer "Seneca." Each year the other countries share the expenses of the expedition...
...question of military force and equipment, this fear seems unnecessarily exaggerated. The University will be termed reactionary by very few for supporting a camp which the government considers of value in the maintaining of an army, for with Mexican intervention imminent, and a standng force too small even to patrol our southern borderline, very few will feel that the United States over-emphasizes the military...
Unknown to a great part of the student body, a force of trained men continually patrols the Yard and its precincts, always on the look-out for that ever-present danger, the dormitory thief. The College has maintained a protective force for many years, but under the re-organized system, which took effect last spring, the number of men has been increased and the service made much superior to its former standard. These men guard especially against the suspicious stranger who enters the Yard with something to sell and proposes to enter the dormitories under one pretext or another...
...theft of these is sometimes resorted to by more or less desperate characters; one of these was recently captured after a long chase. The Yard parrot not only shows its efficiency in this director but it has been most successful in the rounding up of practical jokers. The patrol is hindered by the lack of undergraduate co-operation and considering that in the end the students are the victims, they should give more attention to this matter...