United States Naval Academy - Lucky Bag Yearbook (Annapolis, MD)

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£ t DMIRAL MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY, visioning in the trackless -» ocean countless paths of many ships, devoted his life to the realiza- tion of a broad dream of those paths plotted and that ocean track- less no longer. On paper, he blazed the trail of navigators, and his fertile mind brought forth the first revelation of the secrets of the sea to masters who had hitherto groped blindly on a friendless ocean.

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N 1853, Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry in his flagship, the ( Mississippi, anchored offUraga, Japan. By matching dignity and color ) with greater dignity and more color, the Commodore gained for the white races of the world the respect and commercial amenity of the Japanese, and also enacted one of those dramatic scenes in American his- tory which repay in memorable experience the real debt to the naval officer.

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ONG NIGHTS, lighted only by the weird Aurora Borealis; silent stretches of uncharted ice and snow; everywhere the vast unknown. Thus the call of adventure and a thirst for knowledge resulted in Commander Peary ' s efforts to reveal to civilization what wealth of wasted land or lore the Arctics had to offer, and the subsequent discovery of the North Pole.