Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conditions on some gifts verge on the absurd. In this category would go the famous donation of the mother of Harry Elkins Widener, who insisted, among other things, that all students be required to swim 50 yards before graduating from Harvard. Less well known is the case of a recent donor, a Medical School alumnus, who required that the income from his grant to the med school go to a student renowned for extracurricular activity and "medical unproductivity and scholastically idle diversion." If no student of these qualifications could be found, the money must go to the Medical student deemed...
Despite his irreverent views, Glistrup himself is a very serious worker. He gets up at 2:30 every morning at his home north of Copenhagen, takes a swim in his indoor pool, studies papers for a couple of hours, then catches the 5:18 train to town, where he labors on, undisturbed, until his 76 associates and secretaries arrive. His law firm is, in fact, Denmark's largest...
Turning in the best performances of her career, RoAnn Costin swam to All-American honors in the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) National swim meet at the University of Idaho last week...
...bronze medal swim by Yntema pushed Harvard's three-day point total to 19--the Crimson's best showing in over a decade--and was the finest individual performance in the nationals by a Harvard swimmer since Bruce Hunter took the 50-yd. freestyle crown...
Several Harvard swimmers have good chances of scoring at the nationals, if they can respond to the competition and somehow come up with a few more superlative efforts. Two, in particular, should score if they continue to swim well...