Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 307
re knocking about on board ship,picking up what technical education they could inthe rough school of experience. With the advanceof science in naval warfare, the forcing processof education has changed the free-lance of theforecastle, who had no ideas beyond making along splice or brandishing a… … olis during the summer, and is kept busy atpractical exercises, studies being suspended. Buteven when the four years have slipped by, navalcadets are not yet freed, from the trammels ofschool, for the law requires that they shall thenperform two years sea-service in the cruising ment was to abolish…
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