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Although the Harvard swimming team remains it seems to be fighting a losing battle against the London flu which has hit nearly half the squad. The epidemic could make today's away most with Springfield College for less of a sure thing than previously expected...
...although Springfield has never beaten a Harvard team in swimming, it should provide much more respectable competition than Brown did in last Saturday's shellacking in Providence. The Chiefs beat the Bruins as convincingly as did the Crimson, and with Harvard's illness situation taken into consideration, the meet won't be as big a runaway as it has sometimes been in the past...
Fortunately for Gambrill his team will have the time to recuperate without jeopardizing its 4-0 record before the big showdown with defending league champion Princeton. The Brown and Springfield contests may not be the most competitive but they do give Harvard a needed breathing period to both recover from the flu and get through exams...
...Massachusetts State Guidelines for school integration were set down by the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) in the 1971 Springfield Case. The Court ruled that no student may be bused out of his school district without his parent's consent. The court noted: "It would be possible to nullify the restriction simply by establishing gerrymandered or excessively large districts...
...then Harvard-Brown swimming meets may be a thing of the past. Gambril has tried hard to drop such swimming nonentities as Brown and Springfield the Crimson's opponent next week, which, incidentally, has never beaten a Harvard swimming team in umpteen meetings from the schedule, and they may be replaced by the likes of Tennessee or Indiana...