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Injuries suffered while diving this summer have temporarily deprived the crew and cross-country squads of the services of two star Sophomore athletes, John Watts Jr. '28, captain of the Freshman crew last spring, and A. H. O'Neil '28, formerly Freshman track and cross-country leader.
In the London Times appeared the picture of a diving tower. It was so tall that few men would have cared to leap from it, still fewer to leap from it entwined about someone else, still fewer if their bones were old and their years numbered over 70. Yet two...
While the record of the divers in rubber and steel suits halted at about 200 ft., Dr. Hartman descended 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 ft. in his "diving bell."
Last week despatches from London announced that Dr. Hartman had a perfected "diving bell," was off with seven fellow-scientists and a secretary, for test drops to the bottom of the Mediterranean. The Krupp works at Essen had built him a steel cylinder guaranteed to resist sea-pressure at 15...
Mrs. Coolidge took occasion to deny the report that she was taking swimming lessons. According to a special report to The New York Times, "she is entirely satisfied with her present stroke and her ability in diving. . . ."