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Gambril, working the team hard in order to prepare for the big grind in February, is training through this meet as he did last week against Brown. The experiments with swimmers in "off" events will continue as well. Dave Brum well, primarily a breast stroke and individual medley specialist, will probably swim the 200 yd. free and 200 yd. back, while sprinter Tim Neville will move...
Unlike a majority of the returning varsity, most of the freshmen swam on AAU or club teams during the summer, and have come to school with a definite training edge: One freshman, Dave Brum well, was a member of the Canadian national team that went to the Pan American games in South America this summer...
Scholars & Gentlemen. Whatever the answer, English educators expect that more & more boys from the state schools are going to crash the hallowed gates of the public schools. At Winchester they will find that Wykehamisms (samples: "mugging" for working, "remedy" for holiday, "dead brum" for broke) are as much a part of the school as its rich educational diet. So are the class barriers between the 70 "scholars" (admitted to Winchester by virtue of high scholastic ability), the 16 "quiristers," who for centuries have received a free education for singing in the choir (until their voices change...
Second kick was announcement of an election next June of a Constituent Assembly to redraft the old constitution. Proud of the old constitution was the Administrative Council's idealistic member, onetime President Baltazar Brum, good friend of Woodrow Wilson for whom he named a Montevideo avenue. The Council put in a dignified, parliamentary protest. Meeting in an all-night session, Congress instructed President Terra to undo all he had done...
Third kick was a dictatorship. Dictator Terra appointed his own junta of eight, dissolved Congress and sent police to arrest the Administrative nine. Seven were caught. One, Alfredo Garcia Morales, hid in the Argentine Embassy. Baltazar Brum, facing the end of parliamentary order in Uruguay, met police with a revolver in each hand, wounded two detectives and took refuge in the Spanish Legation. Soon Idealist Brum came out of "dishonorable" hiding and died by his own hand on his own doorstep. His wife stoically carried his body inside. In Montevideo, Brum's death hurt Dictator Terra's prestige...