Word: pooling
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Digest poll, as its sponsors had hoped it would, bred sharp Wet-&-Dry controversy. The Wet complaint: their vote had been split between Modification and Repeal, their real strength confused and diminished. The Drys raged more vehemently. Their charges: 1) Wet funds were financing the pool; 2) more ballots had been sent to men than to women; 3) by some inexplicable divination on the part of the poll managers, Wet families had received many ballots, Dry families none. Dr. Clarence True Wilson of the Methodist Episcopal Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals advised a New Jersey audience to vote...
...Life Insurance Co. director, president of the Magma Arizona R. R., Wartime head of the Red Cross mission to Russia, gave another $1,000,000 to Phillips Exeter Academy. Exeter's greatest benefactor, he is an alumnus (1890), a trustee, has previously given his school a gymnasium, swimming pool, tennis & squash courts, baseball cage, science building, administration building (total value: over $1,000,000). Other recipients of Thompson benefactions: Columbia University, Clarke School for the Deaf, Boyce Thompson Institute for plant research...
...Blankenburg, Hollywood athletic club swimmer: The national 220-yard A. A. U. breaststroke championship in Chicago. While the crowd cheered Blankenburg, Johnny Rea, New York athletic club swimmer, beaten in the race, sank with cramps in the middle of the pool, came up, cried for help unheard, sank again. A spectator in dinner clothes, Lawrence Barr, jumped into the water, pulled...
Harvard students will be admitted to the swimming pool in the new Indoor Athletic Building for the first time this morning when at 10 o'clock the pool will be opened. For the remainder of the college year hours will be the same, the pool continuing open from 10 until 6 o'clock...
...Athletic Association announced last night that all locker holders in the Big Tree Pool may transfer their privileges to the new pool free of charge for the balance of the college year. In order to obtain this privilege, it will be necessary to procure a transfer card from C. B. Van Wyck, Physical Education Department, Wadsworth House, on or after today. The locker transfer card must be presented at the supply room at the new pool when signing up for a new locker. Freshmen whose requirement of physical exercise is swimming are entitled to the same privileges as stated above...