Word: decks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hectic athletic life. He outwalked everyone in his party. In a tug-of-war match between the Prince's team and a team composed principally of Yale and Harvard men, with one short, sharp tug the American team hauled the Prince's team across the line and down the deck. In a potato race, he was disqualified. A pillow fight on a boom proved irresistible sport. "Here," said the Prince, "I want a shot at that! Get me somebody about my weight. I am 150 pounds." A lanky American lad was found. The two went at each other with such...
...below 500. Of these, some 325 are sailing by the customary first and second class passage; nearly 100 are to go in the special student third class cabin instituted this year by several steamship lines; almost as many men again are making their passage instituted diverse ways as stokers, deck hands, stewards, and cattlemen. And a remainder of ten men from the University are crossing the ocean in the most unique way of all--as the officers and crew of a boat of their...
...vessel is the "Nereus", a steel schooner, square-rigged. It is 242 feet in length, 39 feet wide, with a depth of 23 feet. She has a gross tonnage of over 8,000 tons, and her masts, which are steel, shoot up 150 feet above the deck...
These men will be allowed in all parts of the ship during the voyage. They will be taught to handle the wheel, and trained in all the occupations about the deck and in the hold. The only jobs they will not try their hand at is cooking, but even in the galley, a university atmosphere will be maintained, as the three cooks who have been engaged have all served as chefs in prominent undergraduate clubs at Harvard and Princeton...
...from Yale's success this season, the Blue eight will also be in the finals on Saturday. The Eli oarsmen leave Gales Ferry at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. If they win on Saturday, they will not return until Sunday evening, but if they lose they will be on deck at Gales Ferry in time for breakfast on Sunday morning...