Word: hardvard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Widener is linked to a more tangible Hardvard tradition through the very reason for its existence. You see, Harry Elkins Widener'07 was a young Harvard graduate when he sailed innocently enough on the Titanic. In the subsequent disaster, he died when he was unable to swim 100 yards to a lifeboat. When Mrs. Widener, his mother, gave Harvard the library as a memorial to her bibliophile son (all that money came from owning the Philadelphia trolleys) she stipulated that every Harvard graduate must be able to swim. This is why you have to swim 100 yards before...
...Hardvard's only loss this year has ben to the MIT faculty in a league match...