Word: forward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...required dives for the low board remain the same as before, but the high board is used for all meets if the opposing team's divers have three-meter facilities at their home pool. First new dive is the "flying somersault forward, running," which is simply a conventional swan dive with a quick flip on the end of it. The "somersault backward" is just what it says it is except that the diver's body is kept perfectly stiff throughout the dive...
Charley Lutz is ready for a bigger and better year than ever from his forward spot, and his running mate, Chet Legg, carries plenty of scoring punch. Hill Humes is well ahead in the scrap for the pivot post and Lupe Lupien is a fixture as one of the guards. The veteran Fred Hockel has held down the other guard position ever since the first practice session, and he has done a fine job filling the shoes of last year's Captain Vern Struck...
Meanwhile Stanford piled up three times their opponents yardage and, by the last period, they had broken down the Dartmouth forward wall and were gaining at will. Easterners had hoped to crack the mythical "bigger and betterness" complex of western gridmen, and now they have got some explaining...
Since inter-House discussions would be unwieldy and difficult to organize, it remains up to the separate Houses to push forward these meetings. Not only would regular discussions destroy some of the dangers of over-specialization but also they would constitute a positive intellectual contribution to the college on the part of the Houses. Though unspectacular as yet, these meetings have great potentialities which if realized would represent another triumph for the tutorial system at Harvard...
President Seymour also envisaged a reduction of the present Yale requirement of five courses per year. "There is little beyond tradition to put forward in favor of a five-course system. The history of four-course and three-course plans in other institutions indicates no loss in educational values and a decided gain in the quality of undergraduate work", Dr. Seymour wrote...