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Holidays on the Sea Apart from the extensive correspondence carried on between the schoolboys and the officers, who are mostly regarded as "seafaring uncles," visits are paid to the ships. A development is that of carrying selected boys on sea-trips in holiday time.
Several boys have just returned from a month's voyage thrilled with their adventures on the high seas, and with a new conception of what travel means in their education.
In the exhibition there will be a display of log-books kept by these boys, illustrated manuscripts by captains giving an account of their voyages, and a large assortment of gifts exchanged between officers and pupils.
All these gifts are the work of the senders, and show a high standard of handicraft both afloat and ashore. schoolgirls send—sea-going "tablecloths and tea-cosies made by themselves "for cabin use." The boys make pipe-racks and bookshelves as their contributions, "My first
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