Word: regatta
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sailboats of all sizes raced at Glen Cove, L. I., in the annual regatta of the New York Yacht Club. The tallest, slimmest and most famous of them all, Harry Payne Whitney's Vanitie, always sails against the Resolute and often wins. This time it won but was disqualified for failing to cross the starting line properly. At Southport, Conn., Princeton beat Yale and Harvard in a race of eight-metre boats...
...Conn., June 20--In the draw for lanes today for the Harvard-Yale regatta, Harvard won the East course for all the contests. Instead of tossing a coin as had been done in former years, two pieces of paper with the names of the lanes marked on them were drawn out of a hat. This was done four times, once for each of the four races...
...metamorphosis, and all eyes shift to the Thames, teeming with color, and focus upon the eight men on whom depend coveted victory or bitter defeat. With one tremendous overnight sweep the pendulum swings from the sobriety of the Commencement exercises to the frivolous whirl of the Harvard-Yale Regatta, and with it there is the normal transition in the thought and feelings of every loyal graduate and undergraduate. Those who prepared to shed a tear for the finishing Seniors in the sentimental graduation milieu, immediately upon the presentation of the last diploma let their thoughts wander New London-ward...
...today conferred 1884 degrees, the largest huminity in its history, bringing a close its two-hundred and ninety-second year with about one-third, or over 30 percent of those graduating in the College receiving honors in studies, will not be overshadowed by a more superficial interest in the regatta. On the other hand anyone who, after turning from the names of the "Summa cum Laude" scholars with both generous admiration and sincere envy, does not let his thoughts wander toward New London, is narrowly excluding himself from as kaleidoscopic and romantic spectacle as he will ever see, an event...
...Union Boat Club will send a group which includes five graduates and one undergraduate of the University in quest of rowing honors in the Royal Henley regatta on the Thames River, England, which will be held on July 4, 5, 6, and 7. They will sail from New York on the Majestic on June...