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...over them on a self-important little ship piloted by proud matrons going nowhere with a great show of dignity, dragging the water for warmth with elegant fishnets. We are the crew, and now and then we jump over the side, but only to repair the nets, seldom to swim. Our boat belongs to a fleet which still fancies it controls the ocean, but our nets are the old liberal language and theories, which do not catch what we need now to grow; they certainly don't help us to recognize a pervasive ruin which has come quietly down upon...
After the swim, eight other members of the club collected litter in Hell's Half Acre, four acres of lightly timbered land bordering the Charles near the Eliot Bridge and the Mt. Auburn Cemetery...
Moynihan said yesterday he was disappointed that more people did not watch the swim. He attributed the poor turn out to the cold and lack of publicity...
...members of the Sunshine Club, a local ecology group, braved yesterday's near-freezing temperatures to swim the Charles River just below the Eliot Bridge...
Theodore Moynihan of Cambridge and Jeffry Ferris '78 made the swim in what they said was an effort to draw attention to the club's main goals, cleaning the Charles and protecting an area known as Hell's Half Acre...