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...factors that makes the Swarthmore program particularly interesting for Harvard is that Swarthmore itself has recently experienced difficulties in keeping up the interest of nonhonors, or "course" students. The school, under President Courtney C. Smith '38, a Harvard Overseer, is currently working to reduce the stigma of not going out for honors, for by setting off half its upperclassmen in a distinctive program, Swarthmore has created morale problems for the others...
Internal Tick. Skinny Arnie Sowell, the light-foot Pitt Negro with elastic legs, was back in his element, his disappointing summer outdoors and his heartbreaking failure at Melbourne now behind him. He hardly wasted a glance on last year's winner, halfback-sized Tom Courtney of Fordham. On the broad lanes and long straightaways of outdoor tracks, where Courtney could get his weight rolling, things had been different. Sowell had been second best. In the Garden Arnie was at home...
Listening only to the tick of his incredibly accurate mental stopwatch, Sowell glided over the boards, drifting well off the pace. Courtney and the Pioneer Club's Harry Bright drove ahead, hoping to steal the race. But 2½-laps from the tape, Arnie's watch told him it was time. He floated wide on a turn, kicked downhill into his fluid-drive sprint, and the race was over. Sowell was almost 4 yds. in front of Courtney and still moving away when he finished. Time: 1:50.3, a new indoor record, two-tenths of a second faster...
...couple of Olympic champions, Ron Delany and Tom Courtney, ran away with everything but the starter's gun at the 68th annual Boston Athletic Association games. Loping along just back of the pacesetters in the 600-yd. run, Fordham Alumnus Courtney shifted into high on the backstretch of the next-to-last lap, shot into the lead and finished 20 yds. in front of Villanova's Joe Gaffney, who now runs for the Army. It all seemed so easy that even Tom was surprised to hear his time: a world-record-equaling 1:09.5. In the mile...
...what he wanted Rhodes Scholars to be. They must not, insisted Rhodes, "be merely bookworms." Their characteristics should include "fondness of, and success in, manly outdoor sports . . . qualities of manhood, truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for, and protection of, the weak, kindliness, unselfishness and fellowship." Last week President Courtney C. Smith of Swarthmore, American Rhodes secretary, announced the names of the 32 Americans who are supposed to fill this awesome bill...