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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swimming team, as even the most indifferent skimmer of the sports pages may gather, is a pretty good one. The Crimson tankmen haven't dropped a meet in exactly 28 conteats over a period of almost three years, and on the evening in March 1937, when they started their string, they also shattered Yale's 13-year, 163-meet domination of Eastern aquatic competition...
...apparently has some of the glant-killing tendencles of its football men and will be correspondingly hard to beat. But Captain Rusty Greenhood's bunch is determined that the finish of tomorrow's meet will find Coach Ulen smlling. If a Harvard team has to have a 28-meet string broken, it's certain that either Yale or Princeton will be slightly more welcome as breakers than upstart Brown. A consoling thought for Coach Hal is that of all the teams he has tutored either at Harvard or Syracuse not one has ever lost to Brown...
...Clark Hodder would say was, "we deserved to win." But Dewey added, "You can't blame the boys, it's rather a lack of practice that has hampered us. They just haven't had the opportunity to improve." Also the loss of Ayres, first string center due to sickness, and four others who are on probation has made the coaching problem more difficult...
...woefully weak in experience, but worse than that it turned out to be one of the shortest quintets to wear the Crimson in many a year. The Sophomores' one and only seasoned contribution was Homer Peabody, hard-working and aggressive center, who quickly ousted Bill Humes from his first-string pivot post...
Paul Hindemith: String Quartet No. 3 (Coolidge Quartet; Victor: 6 sides). One of the few recorded examples of atonality, this bleak, fleshless, post-War opus is more interesting historically than musically...