Word: flagship
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...which the entire undergraduate body used to plan many weeks in advance. The last time the college went to Princeton in any numbers was in the fall of 1915 to watch Mahan's team give the Palmer Stadium its baptism of Harvard football. Five hundred undergraduates filled the flagship of the Fall River Fleet for one sleepless night and then enjoyed the Great White Way for an eve of celebration. Those days are but blissful memories; the Princeton games fortunately go on but without the old glamor. Today a baseball team without an "H" man on it and a tennis...
Between three and four hundred undergraduates and graduates of the University went on the Naval Training Cruise for Civilians, which started on August 15. The fleet of training vessels consisted of nine ships, the Rhode Island flagship; Virginia, Kearsarge, Louisiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine and New Jersey, all battleships of the Atlantic reserve fleet. The 2300 volunteers formed about half of the crews of these ships, the other half being regular sailors...
...Union tonight at 8 o'clock. Few men are so well qualified to speak on the Navy and its relation to the welfare of the nation as is Admiral, Chadwick. His naval service goes back to the Civil War, and extends through the Spanish War, when he commanded the flagship New York in the battle of Santiago. His experience includes almost every branch of the Navy, as well as seven years as the naval attache of the United States in London. He was one of the noted captains under Admiral Sampson, and was in command of the ship which...