Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Queen's interest in U. S. housing. Mrs. Roosevelt wrote in her column: "It was interesting to me to find how understanding and sympathetic was the Queen's attitude toward the social problems faced today by everyone." After tea, the President and King took a swim in the White House pool. So did Mrs. Roosevelt, Son Elliott & wife...
...follow their own bent down the paths of learning. As a result the uniformity which a thorough grounding in the classics gave the Harvard graduate of thirty years ago has disappeared. Now Harvard turns out physicists, chemists, and social scientists, whose only common bond is the proven ability to swim 50 yards...
...voluntarily swallow an American History pill, no matter how heavily coated with sugar. Nor is a compulsory course a solution, striking as it does at the root of a college system which has only one common requirement for all its graduates: that they be able to write and swim. The plan faces two alternatives. It may become incorporated in the curriculum as an informally taught course in American Civilization. Or it may remain strictly extra-curricular, in the hope that enough undergraduates will voluntarily participate to justify its existence and providing for them a welcome relief from the more formalized...
...They're athletic, too," she said proudly. "I taught them to swim myself...
...main trouble," he declared when asked for an explanation, "is that for our swimmers the Nationals come too much as an anti-climax after we complete our eastern season. We compete in 14 meets and the Eastern League championships here; then have to travel over 800 miles to swim against the country's best...