Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...swimming team will enter relay teams in two meets tonight. The first relay team will swim at 9 o'clock in the relay race which is to be a part of the carnival held by the Waltham Swimming Club, while the second will enter the open meet at the Cambridge Y. M. C. A. which begins at 8 o'clock. In addition to the relay team entered in the Cambridge meet, the swimming team will be represented there by entries in the other contests...
Seventy-five men reported at a meeting for all those interested in organizing University and Freshman swimming teams held last evening. B. Pitman '12 and W. C. Codman '12, both members of the 1912 Freshman swimming team, explained the proposed plans for reviving intercollegiate swimming in the University and the arrangements which have been made for developing the teams. The use of the tank at the Cambridge Y. M. C. A. has been secured for Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoons from 4.30 to 5.30 o'clock. A nominal fee of 20 cents a swim or $2 for a membership ticket...
...meeting of all men in the University interested in organizing both a University and Freshman swimming team will be held in Holworthy 17 this evening at 7.30 o'clock. B. Pitman '12, a member of the 1912 Freshman swimming team, will speak of the proposed plans for reviving swimming and the new facilities at hand for developing the teams. Arrangements can be made to secure the use of the tank at the Cambridge Y. M. C. A. on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoons from 4.30 to 5.30 o'clock. The tank is 20 yards long, making two and a half...
...Swimming as a Harvard sport died in 1910. Since 1907 we have not entered the intercollegiate meet, and since 1910 we have not even meet Yale. The reason for this was not that Harvard lost interest in swimming, nor that swimming was deemed a superfluous activity. It was simply that there was no place to swim. That of all things was the most necessary for a swimming team. With the facilities then available, it was impossible to develop a team worthy to represent the University...
...tank. The Cambridge Y. M. C. A. tank, only a short distance off, 60 feet long, 20 feet wide, and 8 feet deep, is open to any Harvard man upon the payment of a very nominal fee. All we need now is the team, and we need that badly. Swimming is a sport that should not be neglected. It would give an outlet to a lot of the winter energy that is either wasted or is spent on gymnastics. There is room for this activity. It is one of the most prominent, and one of the most beneficial...