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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With over 60 Undergraduates present, the first meeting of the new Harvard Yacht Club was held in Adams House last night, at which a constitution was adopted and plans for this Spring discussed...
Although there was a Harvard Yacht Club formed as early as 1896, there has been little action on sailing here previously. Yale, Dartmouth, Cornell, Princeton, Brown, Williams and M.I.T. all have clubs and most of them have at least small fleets. There is also a club at Vassar. The formation of a Freshman Yacht Club last fall, with over 30 active members, was the start of action here this year...
...creation of an active Yacht Club for Harvard undergraduates is the fulfillment of a long need. The growth of college sailing in the past few years has been rapid, and although it was the Big Three that started intercollegiate racing many years ago, the Crimson has been left far behind by Yale and Brown with their small fleets and M.I.T. with its Pavilion and close to forty boats. Those who attend tonight's meeting will form the nucleus of a group that is setting out to rectify this situation...
...this time such policies as the purchase of boats, where and when to sail them and membership dues will be discussed and preliminary action will be taken. Up to the present the only action of this sort has been the formation of the Freshman Yacht Club...
...When the yacht Velero III, which by express order of its owner is referred to as a cruiser, never as a yacht, tied up in San Diego Harbor one day last week, there disembarked an eccentric man, and after him some of the earth's most eccentric animals. The man was Captain George Allan Hancock, multimillionaire California oil and real-estate operator, musician, aviator, scientist, explorer...