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...sport that had been neglected by the fathers of the University for so many years. Wood, like Arioli, was better in the distances than in the sprints, he having held the championship of the Hawaiian Islands in the mile and half-mile before he came to Harvard. Peter never swam in races before he took up his abode in Cambridge, and thus cannot yet be compared with his great predecessor...
...Macon's stern touched water. Out of the dirigible's lockers had been yanked collapsible rubber life rafts which, when a valve is opened, inflate with carbon dioxide. These were tossed overside. After the crash, the crew slid down lines from the upturned bow into the sea, swam to the life rafts. Last to leave the control car was Commander Wiley and a young lieutenant who banged his head getting away. Badly stunned, he would probably have gone down if his captain had not seized him by the collar, towed him to a life raft...
...high scorer of the meet was A. R. Bourne of McGill who swam in four events and placed in two of them. In the 200-yard breast stroke swim M. Victor Leventritt '35, holder of the Harvard record for that event, easily won in the comparatively slow time...
...long, she was accompanied by her 38-ft. infant, which she paused now & then to suckle. The mother's great head was nearly all mouth, and the vast cavern between her jaws was curtained with hundreds of flat, flexible blades of whalebone. When she was hungry she sounded, swam with mouth agape through shoals of plankton (tiny sea organisms) until the whalebone sieve had collected a toothsome sludge which she licked off with her tongue. She was captured and killed in 1907. Last week Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History placed on exhibition her remains, whalebone...
After the mother whale was caught the baby swam unhappily along the shore until it, too, was killed. Its bones were recovered without difficulty, later traded to the British Museum for the skeleton of a dodo...