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...voted that any Freshman or other person using a boat at the boat-houses for the first time should be required to sign a statement that he can swim and have it verified by his parent or guardian...
...recent boating accident that resulted in the drowning of a Freshman emphasizes the need of more stringent rules governing the use of boats at the University boathouses. Under the rules now in vogue a student must sign a statement that he can swim at least 150 yards before he is allowed to use a boat. This is a very perfunctory duty and is thoroughly inadequate, as the recent accident shows. The ability to swim the required distance is entirely theoretical with no small percentage of those who go out on the river. To be sure one who gives his word...
...boating rules reasonably safe is to require each man who uses boats from either one of the boathouses to demonstrate his ability as a swimmer before being allowed on the river. It is exceedingly to be regretted that the University has no facilities whatever for teaching men to swim, but this situation should make the University all the more exacting in its guardianship of those who go out on the river...
...yard swim--Won by Stoddard (Y.); second, Cutler (H.); third, Palmer (Y.). Time...
...yard swim--Won by Stoddard (Y.); second, Howe (Y.); third, Aspinwall (H.). Time...