Word: swimmer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year's Freshmen seemed to have a good time together. Yardling Coach Pete Peterson says it's because they went on several bus trips together; at any rate, it's a good sign of the will to work which is about 90% of being a good swimmer (5% is natural ability; 5% guts). Dave Stearns, leader of the '42 team, typifies the Sophomores: he has spirit--works hard and once tried unsuccessfully to throw a newspaperman into the pool: he has a measure of speed, and he enjoys pulling his rotund body through the water. So do his classmates...
Potential material for the distance free style events are Bus Curwen, who prepped at Exeter, and Frank German, from Cleveland. Bob Stires also shapes up as a good distance swimmer but he seems versatile enough to serve as a general utility...
Robert N. White '41, reliable distance swimmer on Coach Hal Ulon's tank squad, was stricken with appendicitis and operated on last Monday. He is recovering in the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and is expected to be ready for intercollegiate competition after Christmas...
Eric Cutler '40, captain-elect of the Harvard swimming team, received honorable mention as a distance swimmer on the All-America team recently by the Amateur Athletic Union...
...Down we went," she told reporters, "with Mr. Miller eyeing his watch. . . . I was in the suction. ... I kept going down, and it kept twisting me around and carrying me down. I fought hard. I am a good swimmer and I finally washed out of the suction. ... I had to have air, I just...