Word: swimmer
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...even this team, which, moreover, has only four contests a year, necessitating two absences only, from Cambridge. Surely the time taken away from studies to prepare for these contests, especially when practice is very light, because of the lack of a pool, can hardly be said to injure a swimmer's standing in the University. PAUL WITHINGTON. ALLEN SWIFT...
...yard swim--Won by Withington (H.); second, Chambers (P.); no third swimmer. Time...
...another column this morning we publish the protest of a Senior against the so-called two-sport rule, which, it is claimed, seriously handicapped the swimming team in its recent meet with Yale. Without the services of an experienced swimmer, who had played football during the fall and wished to take part in the more important contests of the spring, the team was undoubtedly at a considerable disadvantage. We are inclined to doubt the extent of injury that the rule has done, but here certainly is a specific instance of its harmful possibilities. Our contributor is right in stating that...
...playing of P. G. Clapp '09 of the difficult piano part is especially worthy of praise. C. L. Tittmann 2L. has a sonorous voice of large compass; his performance of "The Two Grenadiers" was especially impressive. "Le Cor" was given with discreet imagination, and Clapp's "The Swimmer" with considerable dramatic effect...
...original compositions, the Sonata movements of E. Ballantine '07 showed a piano style of unusualy polyphony; the capricious "Apriltide," while trifling, was undeniable pleasing. Clapp's song "The Swimmer" showed the greatest individuality of style, the surest grasp of technique, and greatest power to sustain word...