Word: swimmer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Word has been received from the Dental School that a wealth of swimming material at the school this year has made it feasible to organize a team. Dr. Robert Blackler, former star swimmer of Rindge Technical School, will act as coach...
...Freshmen swimming team will oppose English High School in the second meet of the second this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. Biddell is the most formidable swimmer on the high school team, but should be equalled if not defeated by Worcester and Tilton, whose showing against Andover was promising. Hadley is again expected to win his event, the plunge while Stone has shown enough improvement since the beginning of the season to win a first or second in the hundred...
...regrettable accident occurred yesterday afternoon, in which Hubert Hush '15 was drowned in the Charles. Hush was watching the Wellesley crew practice, from the Cottage Farm Bridge, and in his excitement he lost his balance and fell in. Although a good swimmer, Hush was dragged down by the weight of three gold hockey pucks, two gold footballs, two gold swimming pools, a Phi Beta Kappa Key, and a gold porcupine attached to his watch charm, and was drowned before the oarswomen could come...
...hundred throughout the season, while P. R. Sigourney '15 and F. B. Withington '15 show promise in the shorter sprints. Of the Freshmen, B. M. Fullerton, R. R. Cowen, and J. A. Gilman have done well throughout the season. Fullerton, in particular, has developed into an exceptional all-around swimmer, making the 50 in 26 seconds and the 220 in 2 minutes and 42 seconds. All three, however, are strong swimmers, and their presence next year will greatly strengthen the team. The greatest weakness at present is the lack of divers, there being only two of any ability, G. Bettle...
...most obvious and apparently the most feasible way be making the boating rules reasonably safe is to require each man who uses boats from either one of the boathouses to demonstrate his ability as a swimmer before being allowed on the river. It is exceedingly to be regretted that the University has no facilities whatever for teaching men to swim, but this situation should make the University all the more exacting in its guardianship of those who go out on the river...