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Last day for receiving applications for the Charles Eliot Norton Fellow-ship in Greek Studies...
...truth of the question is that a man who is blessed with a genius for writing will become an author with or without college training. Mark Twain gained his college training in a printing office and a pilot house, and Cooper gained his on board a fighting ship. Schools of authorship will probably never exist, for the man who specializes in the art of authorship will need little help in the selection of his courses. College training will help these men of gifted ability, but it can never produce them. The reasons for the lack of literary geniuses during...
...oarsmen, for here strenuous work was done to get at the main faults of the boats and speedy remedies were applied. A week or so at Gales Ferry proved conclusively to the coaching staff that three more changes were necessary before the first crew was the ship she should be. These changes were made as follows. Harriman was brought to bow in place of Hadley; Sturtevant and Captain Low exchanged places of 5 and 3 respectively; and the veteran coxswain McLane was replaced by Lasher, for it was thought that a lighter man would be more desirable in the stern...
...emergency arising during the Cruise requires the presence at home of a volunteer, he will be permitted to leave the ship and return
...come when the United States must be ready to defend itself, and you are given the opportunity now to accomplish something concrete. You may not become an admiral, but one man who joins the naval cruise is worth to the Navy a hundred who have not been on board ship...