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Said Tiger Coach Howie Stepp after the meet, "Harvard has the greatest swimming team I've ever seen. It will win the league championship without trouble. The only consolation we have will be in laying for you next year...
Ample consolation for Stepp this year, though, was the unofficial time for Princeton's disqualified 300-yard medley relay team. 2:53.5 was the clocking, a world's record, invalid because Al Van de Weghe, Tiger backstroker, failed to touch the wall with his hand as he negotiated a somersault turn in the first leg. The Nassan mermen were rather bitter about the ruling, for Van de Weghe, is notorious for touching as much as two feet below the surface, a practice which makes it very difficult for the judge on turns to see what's going...
...Stepp of Jena commended U. S. Experimenters Hess and Steenbock for their experiments in stimulating the production of vitamins in vegetable oils by means of the ultraviolet rays (artificial sunshine) of mercury lamps. . . . Too much vitamin-potent food might injure patients...
...corporation," wrote Commander Jacob Stepp to the Navy Department, "can afford to juggle with the proper hygiene of its establishment...
Commander Stepp, surgeon of the U. S. scouting fleet, was making a special report to his superiors. The particular corporation he had in mind was the U. S. Navy. He questioned if this corporation was not "juggling" in permitting "maddening engineering competition" between its various elements, "especially when we consider the deleterious effects, on the health and morale of a selected personnel, of permitting a reduction of the standard allowances of heat, ventilation, water and light." Modern battleship design, as every one knows, seeks to eliminate waste space, waste weight, superfluous comfort...