Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...didn't know how to swim. I was very poor on the parallel bars, and my phys.-ed. class came at the damn wrong hour." The reluctant athlete is Philosopher Mortimer Adler, 74, whose aversion to compulsory exercise cost him a B.A. degree from Columbia even though he completed the rest of the curriculum in three years and ranked first in his class. Last week Columbia tried to make things right, if not logical, with the author of How to Read a Book by awarding him its Graduate Faculties Alumni Award for Excellence. Adler accepted benignly, noting later that...
...Harvard swim team is looking forward to a good season next year, when they will get an incoming freshman who is a 1976 Olympic silver medalist in the 1500-meter freestyle and also holds the world record in the 800-meter freestyle (See story, page...
Robert W. Hackett II '81 said yesterday he decided to apply to Harvard last month, three months after the deadline, when his long-time coach was appointed head swim coach at Harvard...
Hackett may prove to be a "mixed blessing" for the swim team because although he will boost the team's overall performance and set outstanding records at Harvard he may also "frustrate the incentive" of other swimmers, Duncan S. Pyle '78, co-captain of next year's swim team said yesterday...
...agents are often outwitted. Farmers on the U.S. side of the river sometimes put out empty boxes at sunset. Mexicans swim the river at night, pick okra in the early morning when it is fresh, then swim back home. The farmer returns at midday and, lo, his boxes are full. A Mexican labor manager, who hires the workers, arrives later in the day for his pay. Says Lomblot: "The farmer gets cheap labor, the Mexicans keep from starving, and everybody's happy but the border patrol...