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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard is out of the running as far as the team scores go, because only one man is entered in the cross-country race, which occurs this morning. The others are unable to get up to Wood stack in time for that event, because of having examinations today. Thus chances of a Crimson victory are blasted at the start, but it is likely that some of the men who have done well in the past in downhill and slalom will repeat their performances again this year. Both the latter events are being held on Suicide Six, which is a mean...
...foursome. King, Ferner, Ames, and a Freshman, Duncan Reed, will run in the slalom race. Henry Bigelow is the only Harvard representative in the langlauf. The jump, which will be held on the Dartmouth hill at Hanover, will see Ames, Winship, and Bigelow competing for the Crimson. The latter event will probably be held on Sunday morning...
Before his death, Smith stipulated that his estate should go to his son Charles H. Smith, Jr., member of the faculty at the University of Colorado, and a Miss Rose Farrel. Upon their deaths, the estate went to Providence, with the provision that in the event the city failed to live up to the terms of the will, the estate should revert to the University...
Many object to the fishtail on other grounds than legal ones. The breast-stroke was probably the first stroke over used, and it has been retained as a racing event largely because of sentiment over its historical background. Since Mann's proposal would make the classic breast-stroke unrecognizable and more and more like the crawl, these dissenters fool that the breast-stroke should be retained as it is or else completely abandoned in favor of the crawl...
This is not the first time that Mann has started a controversy over some phase of swimming. At the '32 Olympics in Los Angeles, he put up a big objection to the Japanese swimmers' practice of using oxygen tanks to rejuvenate themselves after an event...