Word: swims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's captain and distance freestyler star, Dave Abramson, will unfortunately not swim this afternoon because of an injured shoulder. Abramson is undefeated in the 500 against Yale. Last year he put on a stunning performance to upset Olympian Dave Lyons with a time...
...community colleges are also attracting more affluent youths who want to avoid the huge, impersonal, lower-division classes on the big campuses, and many who may be able enough, but not mature enough, to compete at the university level. "On a university campus, a student sinks or swims," explains Dr. William G. Dwyer, president of the Massachusetts Board of Regional Community Colleges, "but on a community college campus, we try to teach him how to swim...
Yale's varsity roster lists some 69 swimmers, including 24 seniors (Harvard's by comparison, has 26, including two seniors), and most of them never get to swim in more than a pre-season meet or one of the Yalies' three practice pools. But this fantastic depth brings results; Yale has no fewer than 11 swimmers who can do the 200-yard freestyle in under 1:49.0, a Harvard University record earlier this year...
...average standard of general physical fitness is adequate for skiing, Dr. Manson states. That is, you should be able to swim two or three lengths of the pool or play a game of tennis or squash without puffing like a steam locomotive...
...Murray Schisgal laughs through his characters' tears in a takeoff of a society and a theater that swim in self-pity. Mike Nichols' direction and the performances of Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson and Alan Arkin make love seem an outrageously humorous subject...