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Fears that swimming from the Weld Boathouse float would be forbidden this spring were dispelled yesterday morning after a conference held in the office of the H. A. A. between Mr. Fred W. Moore '93, graduate treasurer of the H. A. A., and Mr. W. H. Geer, director of physical education at the University...
...result, notices have been posted in the boathouse all spring forbidding all swimming from the float. The decision reached yesterday by Mr. Moore and Mr. Geer to remove these signs and allow swimming from restricted portions of the float comes as a compromise between the men who protested their wish to use the float for bathing purposes, and the crew managers who would like to eliminate the bathing altogether from the boathouse...
...been serious in the past. With launches and shells constantly arriving at and departing from the float, there have been many narrow escapes for swimmers diving off the float and swimming in the surrounding waters. Fortunately, any actual mishaps have been avoided in the past, and, according to Mr. Geer, they may be obviated altogether, now that the bathing has been restricted to one end of the float...
However stunning may have been the effect of the bombshell which M. Geer hurled into the Atlantic City Convention, there is certainly nothing catclysmic in the reactions it arouses nearer home. To any one who has been associated, even in indirectly, with Mr. Geer, his views on school and college athletics appear so sane and logical that any opposition to them seems to reflect a strangely perverted point of view...
Only within the last few years has the bubble of athletic importance shoed signs of dwindling to proper proportions. Mr. Geer's strength in assisting at this reduction lies in the fact that he has gone to no extremes. He believes thoroughly in the value of the competitive spirit and of inter-institutional games; where he rightly draws the line is at the point where athletics cease to be a means to better standards of physical health, and threaten instead to over shadow and even to undermine the principle of balanced development which is the aim of modern education...