Word: santvoord
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...together on a voyage. They were bound southeast few Bermuda, 660 miles away. So far as anyone knew this was the first formal match race in U. S. sailing history between two square-riggers, privately owned and under yacht pennants. Prizes were a special trophy offered by Commodore Van Santvoord Merle-Smith of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club (Oyster Bay, L. I.) and a dinner for all hands, to be consumed in Bermuda and paid for by the losing owner...
...plough by night. Just a year ago Hudson River Night Line, famed as all night lines are in many a locker room tale, ploughed right into receivership. Last week Hudson River Day Line (no corporate kin) ploughed into receivership, too. As receiver, courts appointed Alfred Van Santvoord Olcott, the Line's president. Great-grandson of Commodore Abraham Van Santvoord whose "safety barges" were the talk of the river 125 years ago, Receiver Olcott said the company had been unable to obtain the usual bank loan to tide it over the winter months when its big white steamers are laid...
George Van Santvoord, whimsical one time instructor and assistant professor of English at Yale, now headmaster of Hotchkiss School, last week wrote an article for the Yale News in which he purported to explain the plan of a Yale student's father for solving the week-end exodus problem current at New Haven. Wrote Mr. Van Santvoord : "For this purpose he proposes to lease the Hotel Biltmore [in Manhattan]. Students enrolling in Biltmore College will pay an annual fee of $5,000. One week-end absence will be allowed each" term for attendance at the Yale-Harvard game. . . . Each...