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...They're athletic, too," she said proudly. "I taught them to swim myself...
...main trouble," he declared when asked for an explanation, "is that for our swimmers the Nationals come too much as an anti-climax after we complete our eastern season. We compete in 14 meets and the Eastern League championships here; then have to travel over 800 miles to swim against the country's best...
...made out. Melville's turn to allegory, he says, was a literary mistake, aided and abetted by Boston and Manhattan intellectuals. Hawthorne, who used to lie in the hay talking with Melville about time and destiny, characterized Melville's metaphysics as enough to "compel a man to swim for his life...
...Almost everyone can learn to swim comfortably if not rapidly," says swimming Coach Harold S. Ulen in the introduction of his new book, "The Complete Swimmer," on the aquatic art to be published on May 2. Not to be outdone by Oologist Richard Cresson Harlow who has been named a curator of birds' eggs, Ulen has ventured into the literary field in accord with the University's well-known desire for books to be written...
Captain Richard R. Hough, of Princeton, warmed up for his race tomorrow by swimming the fastest 100 yards breastroke ever swum by man. He did the century in 59.9 in an exhibition swim which was not accepted as a world's record because the authorities in New Haven had not been notified the prescribed three days in advance. He cracked Jim Skinner's Exeter and world's record of 1:02.1, and the accepted national mark of 1:02.7 made by Jack Kasley, of Michigan. Hough was paced by a pair of Yale breastrokers...