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...This action, according to N. W. Fradd, director of the building, has been taken chiefly to accommodate those men who are detained in laboratories or elsewhere during the early part of the afternoon and who have found that the pool closed too early to allow time for a late swim. The problem is made especially acute during the winter months when the pool is reserved for the teams between 3 and 4.30 o'clock...
...many men who are prevented by laboratory work or extracurricular activities from beginning their exercise before half past five. Arriving at the New Gymnasium, these men find that they cannot remain in the pool after quarter to six. If they have hopes of rearranging their schedules so as to swim earlier, these hopes are defeated, for the pool is reserved for the swimming team every afternoon from three until half past four. At six, exercise stops everywhere in the building...
...Penrose's more respectable pastimes was giving houseparties on his yacht to fellow-legislators and lady friends. On one occasion Penrose emerged on deck completely ready for a swim. A lady screamed at the sight. "Madame," said Senator Penrose, "I grant that mine is not the form of Apollo, but it is too late for either of us to do anything about that. But if I present what to you are strange or unfamiliar phenomena, it is you who should be ashamed, not I." The rise of Philadelphia's Vare brothers worried Penrose's declining years; more...
...significant and authoritative refutation of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. The Dutch scientist conceives the universe as being slowly "blown up like a soap-bubble," an idea even more bewildering to the layman than Einstein's "warped space." Though this question is complex enough to make even astronomers' heads swim, its nevertheless illustrative of other disputes that should concern the average man and his beliefs...
Moving up the relay race from its former length of 200 yards to 400 yards constituted the first change. The second consisted of adding an entirely new event, the 220-yard free-style swim. The effect of these changes will be to increase to some extent the length of the University swimming meets...