Word: swim
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...search for the beautiful, the other taught beauty itself. The young men arrived in the morning early and soon were engaged in the forenoon bath, which is, perhaps, too much neglected by our trainers. This occupied over an hour, for they took hot and cold baths, then a swim, and finally the more fastidious youths appointed themselves for the day. After this the morning was spent in study, and the afternoon, until the evening bath, was passed in athletic exercises. We find the character of the exercises much the same as at present. The discus throw was much practised...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: According to the rules of the athletic committee a man must know how to swim in order that he may row in a class or university boat, where there is practically no danger; but he may go out in a cranky, seventeen-inch shell, and, unmolested, find a watery grave. Is this fair...
...action of the committee on athletics, in requiring that every candidate for any of the crews must know how to swim, again suggests the great need of a swimming bath, where students can learn and exercise this valuable accomplishment. It is well known that, at present, many of the men who try for the crews are unable to take care of themselves in the water, and the liability to accidents is really much greater than is generally supposed. A man who tries to row in a shell when he cannot swim is running a very great risk. Every one recollects...
...equally strict and severe - arbitrarily so it may seem to many. The third rule is but putting into the form of a formal regulation what has long been the practice in regard to candidates for the various crews and clubs of the college. The fourth rule, requiring ability to swim from all members of the crews, is eminently proper and commendable. The same rule is in operation, we understand, at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, England. A rule similar to the fifth rule has, we believe, already long been in force. It will be seen that the most important of these...
...From the beginning of the college year 1883-84 no person shall be admitted as a member of any class or university crew unless he knows how to swim...