The food I must mention. Looking through a week's menus and at some of the food prepared, I think T can describe it best by saying that in variety, quality, and quantity, it is considerably better than what could served: in working-class housg-
All things considered, the opportunity these boys are getting, of making something of their lives and of using their faculties, their brains, and their hands, is infinitely preferable to what they could have hoped for in their previous occupations. To tave reached the stage of being boys on the Caledonia they must have proved themselves to be of a calibre far too high to be wasted as message boys and shop assistants, Their life on board the Caledonia would seem to be a happy one and their future now holds for them variety and hope. For it is even possible in the Navy for a boy entering as thie boys are to rise to the highest commissioned rank. Only occasionally, however, can a boy ever reach such a position but a large number of boys have risen to become commissioned warrant officers—a rank which any good and ambitious boy can hope to reach with every chance of success,
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