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About forty candidates handed in their names at a meeting last night in the interests of water polo and relay swimming. Temporary officers of this organization were elected as follows: President, P. Fox '03; vice-president, E. George '03; secretary and treasurer, C. G. Dodge '04. Practice will be held in the Dunster tank on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings between 9 and 10 o'clock, and teams will be formed at once to swim against the B. A. A. and the Brookline Swimming Club. Any candidates who have not yet handed in their names should report at Dunster this...
...Athletic Committee has declined to allow a Harvard team to compete in the intercollegiate swimming races at the Sportsman's Show, and the plan has therefore been given up. A team of twelve has been formed which will be coached by W. L. Garrison '97 and Henry H. Harrison for the private competitions held frequently by the Boston Athletic Association and other clubs. To qualify for the team, candidates were required to swim forty-eight yards with three turns, in less than thirty seconds. The twelve men chosen are: E. George '03, A. W. Ristine '02, D. C. Campbell...
...strange that in the plans for the University Club no thought has been taken for a swimming tank. One or two small tanks are being introduced for the use of dormitories, but a large pool, open to all undergraduates, is a want that has been felt for a long time. In the first place, it is a lamentable fact that many grown men, either because their homes are away from the water or for other reasons, do not know how to swim. In athletics, too, a tank could play an important part in making it possible to have water polo...
...boat before, who go to the Weld to learn to row and are unable to keep upright in the most stable wherry. There is also inevitably considerable carelessness resulting in upsets and collisions, and as it is now, the unfortunates have little choice but to sink or swim. If the city will not rectify this state of affairs the boat club authorities should certainly see that the necessary precautions are taken. We can afford to take no risks...
...flung suddenly, when fast asleep, out of a car-window into a river manages to swim, with one shoulder broken, to the shore. Upon crawling up he hears behind him from the wrecked and sinking cars a woman's voice begging help. The man goes back into the river, crippled as he is, but is too late. The woman perishes before her rescuer can reach her, who nevertheless brings back to land and life a man lying on the car who cannot swim. Clarence Morgan of Buffalo, manager of the Depew Improvement Company, a young Harvard graduate of the class...