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...third casualty of the newly instituted conditioning classes was hung up yesterday afternoon when Charles W. Joyce '44 of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Dunster House sprained his back while trying to execute a "headstand...
...also constructed a barometer and wrote an almanac which "will shew . . . Suns rising, setting, declination, amplitude, his place in the Ecliptic, Right Ascension, Equation of time, the Moons Right Ascension & place in the Ecliptic, time of her rising and setting and southing . . . and the time of high Water at Salem, Epact, Golden Number & the year of the Julian Period...
Bowditch's first voyage took him to the French Isle of Bourbon (now Reunion) in the Indian Ocean. It was exotic after Salem, but not as exotic as Bowditch seemed to the French when he blushed at their conversations. "Il n'a pas encore perdu sa pucelage," a Frenchman explained to a French lady. "Quelle âge avez-vous, monsieur?" she asked Bowditch. "Twenty-three." The French lady threw up her hands: "C'est une chose absolument impossible de conserver la pucelage á cette...
Later Bowditch was on the first Salem ship to visit Manila, where he admired the girls. "You can live with them in their houses," he wrote, "like man and wife. . . . Their dress is chiefly in white with a small skirt which reaches no lower than their knees, so that a small puff of wind would discover their nakedness. . . ." Pucelage was giving way to a certain worldliness...
Bowditch's last voyage took him to Sumatra to buy pepper. This time he was part owner of his ship. One Christmas, in a driving snow storm, he sailed into Salem blind, except for a glimpse of the land at the mouth of the harbor. Then he sold the ship, never went to sea again. His feat became a New England legend. Actually it showed that he knew more about navigation than any other man of his time...