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Dangerous Dry Spell. No one is quite sure why the unleashed scholars establish their beachhead each year at Fort Lauderdale-an East Coast resort town of 63,000 with a perceptible percentage of retired oldsters. But ever since the town invited students to something called a "swimming forum" in 1938, they have swarmed back each year. Some motel owners are leary of the students; a room rented to two of them at sundown will be sardined with a dozen by dawn. At least one dine-and-dance-oasis proprietor has declared her roadhouse off-limits to the college crowd...
Ebright started early and stayed late. At the crew-conscious University of Washington (class of 1917), he was a fine coxswain under the great Hiram Conibear, father of West Coast rowing, and developer of the upright stroke with short layback that became the trademark of West Coast crews, differentiating them from Eastern oarsmen, who took their style from the British. California picked Ebright in 1924 to raise the Golden Bears to Washington's lofty level. Results came quickly. In 1927, 1928 and 1929, California crews, newly tutored in the Conibear stroke by Ebright, left mighty Washington trailing in their...
Boston University is favored to retain the Lucian Sharpe Memorial Trophy, with M.I.T. and the Coast Guard Academy expected to provide the toughest opposition. Other schools competing in the regatta are Dartmouth, Rhode Island School of Design, and Yale...
...seven-school meet at Tech today the two Crimson Freshman crews stand a good chance of sailing away with honors in 12-foot Tech dinghies. The Freshman sailors will also compete in the octagonals at Brown tomorrow, at which the Coast Guard Cadets are favored to defeat their opponents...
...approved by the state, the sign would stop cars travelling north on Plympton St., between the Lampoon Building and the Gold Coast Valeteria. The DPW must approve all local traffic control measures...