Word: pools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most seniors who neglected to fulfill this second requirement their freshman week at Harvard will soon discover, the University will not withhold a diploma from any senior who has failed to successfully dog-paddle his way across the pool...
...Harry Elkins Widener donated her husband's huge fortune and impressive book collection to the University on two conditions: the first, that not a single brick be removed from the Widener Memorial Library, and the second, that every freshman be required to pass a swim test in the IAB pool. Mrs. Widener felt that her son, who died tragically in the sinking of the Titanic, would have lived had he known how to swim...
...Friday night, the Crimson took the pool against the number-one-ranked Bruins, who had drowned the Harvard club so badly earlier this year that the players stopped counting when the score...
...candidate. They are relegated to a chartered Boeing 707 that flies some miles ahead of Air Force One. At rallies and other public appearances, reporters either watch Ford from roped-in areas some distance away or are kept waiting on the press bus, where they listen to a "pool" reporter's walkie-talkie account. "We're trapped in a steel cocoon," says Larry O'Rourke of the Philadelphia Bulletin. "We're fed what they want us to know...
Last year on October 22, Bill Lee announced that he was going to the Eliot Lounge to play bumper pool. This year on October 2, though almost nobody noticed, he might have done the same thing...