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Radical Boat Design. Higgins, Inc., New Orleans boat builder (World War II PT-boats), demonstrated a new 52-ft.-10½-in.-long aluminum boat that can carry 30 passengers at 40 m.p.h. in rough waters. The boat's hull has a series of protruding edges angled to reduce water resistance and cushion pounding. Two 500-h.p. gas turbine engines power the craft. Price: about...
...policy of "athletics for all" had been announced in 1919, when compulsory PT was instituted for freshmen. Seven years later the University granted real recognition to inter-collegiate athletics, and assumed a measure of direct control over the heretofore autonomous program. In 1926, William J. Bingham '16 was made the first Director of Athletics...
Special reduction of freshman PT credits passed its initial test in the Student Council last night, as the group voted to accept the report of a special committee investigating Physical Training for working freshmen...
...report endorses reduction of PT credits for all freshmen working nine or more hours a week. In recommending this reduction, the report stressed that working students often hold scholarships subject to good academic standing, and that PT is an unnecessary expenditure of needed time...
According to Lewis B. Oliver Jr, '61, co-author of the report, the recommendation to reduce PT requirements represents "an attempt to reconcile the views of two groups--the Student Employment Office and the Department of Physical Training...