Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lower basin, but she became unmanageable and went aground on a mud bank off the Crescent Boat Club house. The skid on the keel stuck in the mud and prevented the tide from floating the launch. She soon began to fill and the engineer was compelled to swim ashore. Efforts were made to get the launch afloat yesterday, but were unsuccessful. A lighter of the Boston Towing Company has been hired, and it is expected that the launch will be run off at high tide this morning, about four o'clock...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- In a recent number of the CRIMSON it was stated that an addition to the gymnasium would be begun next spring, but that it would not contain a swimming pool as had been rumored. I wish to put in a plea for the swimming pool. It seems strange that in a great university where every other sport receives attention, swimming, the most useful of all, should be entirely neglected. If then, we are to have an addition to the gymnasium, why not devote at least part of it to that delightful and beneficial recreation? For swimming besides...
...course if it is a monetary consideration that prevents the University authorities giving us a place to swim in, we can only wait and hope; but if that is not the reason let us by all means have a swimming pool...
...Freshman Glee and Banjo clubs went to Worcester last Friday afternoon as the guests of R. M. Washburn, and had a very enjoyable time. They were met at the station by barges and conveyed to Lake Quinsigamond, where a steamer was boarded. After a sail of an hour a swim was taken at one end of the lake and the party returned to the Quinsigamond Boat Club House where they were hospitably received by Capt. Winslow of the '85 ball nine and other members of the club...
There is a natatorium in New Haven for Yale students wishing to learn how to swim...