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ence in seamanship - and some training they get. I know one fellow that had been in the navy six years after spending a month on one of those boats."
"There is not much more to see, Emil, around here. I'll take you over to the other camps now. There is Camp Perry, Dewey' Farragut, Decatur, Ross, Paul Jones, Boone, Logan, and the Range. Each one is a separate camp with a separate administration. We'll go to Paul Jones first."
Here Emil closed his mouth for the first time and it was obvious he was trying to speak. Finally recovering from his amazement he managed to say three words: "Where's recruiting office?"
LOOK.
U. S. HARKSON, '16
Sailors? Well, not exactly; but we are becoming a little "salty." To be a good sailor you must be "salty" - "Tough ... .. Hardboiled," talk to everyone as if you were going to shy an anchor at him, and have every stray dog sneak up an alley when you come down the street. That, of course, is only the ideal, but we all have hopes of reaching this Utopian state.
To come back from our dreams -
let us consider what we really are and what we have been while in
the navy. Last summer there were quite a few old Nebraska relics
that came to the Great Lakes Training Station for their annual
outing. At muster every morning we sounded about this way: Scott -
"here sir"; Al Look - "here". Proctor - "yo"; Tym - (no answer);
Harkson -
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