Word: poole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once upon a time Harvard Freshmen lived a precarious, hand-to-mouth life in dormitories and rooming houses all over Cambridge. Today first-year men dwell in the ancient Yard, deeded to the College in 1936; in the Harvard Union they had together, play pool, dance, and study...
Here Freshmen eat and make the time-worn jokes about the stuffed animal heads on the wall and the daily menu. Here they spend hours in the pool-room downstairs. And here in May they dance at the Jubilee, last organized class affair before Senior year and Commencement...
Whether they like to get wet or not, incoming Freshmen have to swim two lengths of the 75-foot pool. Failure to do this by the Senior year means no A.B. degree. The pool, one of the fastest in the country, is open during the whole school year, with the team, coached by Larry Peterson, operating during the winter...
Above the pool are located three basketball courts, which can be converted into indoor tennis courts. Skip Stahley will direct the '43 dribblers, and the odds are that he will held another fine team...
...been well said that "he who drinks from one occupied in learning drinks from a running stream; he who learns from one who has already learned all he has to teach, drinks the 'green mantic of the stagnant pool...