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As at West Point, the mathematics is the stumbling block of the new man at Annapolis. In the first term algebra, logarithms and geometry had to be finished, for in the second term trigonometry was the subject in mathematics. Shortly before eight in the morning the bugle call sounded for the first period of recitation. The midshipmen fell in by classes in front of Bancroft Hall.
Helen was there, and Amelia Bancroft. Alice applauded me for refusing him; but when he whispered in my ear that he had been to Surrey I changed my mind. She assisted me with cheerful alacrity to put on a merino dress, its color was purple; a color I hate now, and never wear and wrapped me warmly. Charles appeared before we started. "Are you really going?" he asked, in a tone of displeasure.
Bancroft has appointed him to suppress an insurrection among the government laborers, and he writes to Miss Sophia Peabody: "I was not at the end of Long Wharf to-day, but in a distant region, my authority having been put in requisition to quell a rebellion of the captain and 'gang' of shovellers aboard a coal-vessel.
"I will first give you the news in brief," she said, when Anthony had said grace and they were seated, all four of them as before; and the trumpet-flourish was silent that had announced the approach of the venison. "Mutton's new chaplain, Dr. Bancroft, will be in trouble soon; he hath been saying favourable things for some of us poor papists, and hath rated the Precisians soundly.
"There," says Bancroft in his History of America, "under the suns of June, with timber felled in an inland grove, and dragged for a league over the prairie grass, the colonists prepared to build a shelter, La Salle being the architect, and himself making the beams, and tenons, and mortises."
"Now, why on earth does that fellow deliberately pick a fight with me?" wondered Darrin, as he strolled along by himself. "Treadwell can thump me. He can knock me clean down the Bay and into the Atlantic Ocean, but what credit is there in it for a first classman to thrash a youngster?" It was too big a puzzle. After thinking it over for some time Dave turned and strolled back to Bancroft Hall.
"I beg your pardon?" asked the young man at her side. "The ultimate! That's my way of expressing what the boys call 'the limit. Why, that's Jess and Jimsy Bancroft, in their new aeroplane the one Roy built for them. Well, did you ever! Oh, Jess! Oh, Jimsy!" Peggy raised her voice and shouted.
Bancroft, the great historian of his own country, has said, in his own graphic and emphatic language, 'The history of the colonization of America is the history of the crimes of Europe. From that time down to our own period, America has admitted the wanderers from every clime.
George Bancroft was appointed Secretary of the Navy, and Cave Johnson, of Tennessee, Postmaster-General. Mr. John Y. Mason, who had been the Secretary of the Navy in Tyler's Cabinet, was retained by Polk as his Attorney-General, having made earnest appeals that he might not be disturbed.
Some writers, wishing to give the glory to the Spaniards, arrive at conclusions hastily, though of course a name like that of Bancroft carries great weight and his arguments deserve the highest consideration. The question then is, Was the Golden Hind the first ship to cross the bar and pass through the Golden Gate, in the name of Queen Elizabeth of England?
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