Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yesterday Prince Gustavus Adolphus left New York for his first visit to Yale University in New Haven. The royal party arrived on Mr. J. P. Morgan's yacht Corsair, and were entertained by President and Mrs. Angell at tea prior to a tour of the university including a trip to the Yale Field where the Prince was introduced to the members of the Yale baseball team. At 8.30 o'clock last night a special convocation was held, the fourth in the history of Yale University, and President Angell conferred an honorary degree of doctor of laws on the Swedish Crown...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On his return to Boston in the afternoon he will be shown the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and later will be conducted to the Somerset Country Club for a view of the races. Late in the same afternoon he will leave Boston by yacht for Pride's Crossing, where he will spend the night...
...Junior crew left the boathouse after the University eight returned. As usual Harry Payne Whitney has placed his yacht Captiva, which is anchored off Gales Ferry, at the disposal of the crews during the entire training period. Today, because of the absence of the Yale coaching launches, two launches from the Captiva were used instead...
While Il Duce triumphed at Genoa, King Vittorio Emanuele embarked at Civita Vecchia (port of Rome) upon the royal yacht Savoia for Sardinia. Escorting the Savoia steamed four dreadnoughts, three cruisers, 22 destroyers...
Cocky little boats with pale sails, maneuvering this way and that on quiet water like a fleet of river butterflies, swerved at the sound of a gun and passed between a committee yacht and a red buoy, putting out of Larchmont harbor into Long Island Sound. They were the interclub sloops (Marconi-rigged yachts, 19½ feet on the water line), the new racing boats; and their appearance meant that the yacht-racing season had begun again in Eastern waters. Soon the boats of the other classes -the graceful, low-leaning "S" boats with their big spread of canvas...