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With Mr. Lowington, the Academy Ship, which was the name he usually / applied to the idea he had matured, and thus far carried into effect, / was not a speculation; he did not intend to see how much money could be / made by the scheme. It was an experiment in the education of rich men's / sons, for only rich men could pay for scholarships in such an expensive / institution.
The Brockway Academy was to be continued, under the management of a / board of trustees. An accomplished teacher had been selected by Mr. / Lowington, and the school, under its present administration, was in a / highly prosperous condition. Only ten of its pupils had been transferred / to the Academy Ship, for it required no little nerve on the part of / parents to send their sons to school on the broad ocean, to battle with / the elements, to endure the storms of the Atlantic, and to undergo the / hardships which tender mothers supposed to be inseparably connected with / a life on shipboard.