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Hopkins, a perennial top-ten finisher in the NCAA college division, is led by a flock of outstanding aquatic Blue Jays. All-American Bill Milne, described by Hopkins coach Frank Comford as "definitely our best swimmer," has taken six individual college-division championships in the last three years...
...captain RoAnn Costin who placed first in the 100- and 200-yard freestyle events and senior Connie Cervilla who won the 50-yard butterfly and 100-yard freestyle competitions. Costin's time in the 200 qualified her for the Eastern Inter-Collegiate meet in January. Cervilla was the only swimmer to qualify an individual event for both the national and Eastern inter-collegiate competitions to be held later this year...
Sailor-Poet. But according to Day, young Lowry was not just a budding aesthete. After losing his baby fat, he turned into a credible rugger player, a strong swimmer and an excellent golfer. He wrote jazz songs and played the ukulele, an instrument that accompanied him all his life. He even spent a year as a deck hand aboard a freighter (driven to the dock in the family Rolls). Upon his return he entered Cambridge, where he played the experienced sailor-poet, began work on his first novel, Ultramarine, and started serious drinking...
...Harvard's little idiosyncracies that stems from one of Harvard's eccentric donors. Harry Elkins Widner, a non-swimmer, was killed when the Titanic went down during its maiden voyage in 1912. In his memory, his mother erected a library--the major architectural monstrocity that stands in the Yard and the worst place in which to study in the University. But a stipulation in her contract with Harvard required that every Harvard undergraduate degree recipient know how to swim. ('Cliffe women, of course receive Harvard degrees.) And if you don't know how to swim when you get here, they...
...afternoons for evening tune-up, zeroing in with the unfaltering regularity of a computerized missle, pursuing the ultimate target, the final goal, the quintessential achievement with the relentlessness of that missle, propelling up and down his 25-yard aquatic domain throughout the year, established himself as the premier swimmer in the Harvard fleet of standout mermen. Yntema, who ignored with an indifferent composure the frenetic excitement of Harvard's drive to a share of the Eastern League swimming title, eyeing with an unvarying determination his singular objective, refusing to be distracted for the vaguest moment by the hullabaloo swirling around...