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FRESHMEN WILL TURN TO WINTER SPORTS MONDAY

MEN WHO CAN NOT SWIM MUST ADOPT THAT SPORT

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With cold weather rapidly driving crew, tennis, track and other forms of fall exercise into the discard, Freshmen will have to choose during the next few days some new form of exercise to satisfy their three hour a week physical training requirement.

Before Monday, every member of the Freshman class will be obliged to enroll at Wadsworth House for one of the following forms of winter exercise offered by the department of physical education, boxing, wrestling, basketball, squash and swimming.

All these activities will begin for Freshmen on Monday, November 5, it was learned yesterday from Mr. W. H. Geer, director of Physical Education.

For those Freshmen who are as yet unable to swim, the swimming classes to be held each hour on Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoon in the Big Tree Pool will be compulsory.

For men who choose wrestling, Coach Frank Judson, who has been reappointed coach will begin his classes on Monday at 2 and 3 o'clock in the wrestling room at Hemenway Gymnasium. From then on his regular classes will meet at 2 and 3 on Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons.

Coach William Shevlin, who has also been reengaged, will be in charge of Freshman boxing this winter. He plans to conduct his work in the boxing room at the Hemenway Gymnasium on the same schedule as that which Coach Judson has chosen for his wrestling work.

Squash racquets will also begin on Monday in the eight newly constructed squash courts in the Freshman Gymnasium. Squash sections will meet under the supervision of W. H. Sayre, 21, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday in half hour sections from 2 o'clock until 6.30.

Fencing is another form of exercise for which Freshmen may enroll during the winter beginning Monday. Coach J. S. Danguy will hold fencing classes for Freshmen at 2.30, 3.20, and 3.30 o'clock.

S. L. Chase 31, will be in chance of both the Freshmen basketball sections and of the Freshman basketball team. Although the Freshman team will not be organized until later in the season, the hourly sections will begin on Monday in the Gymnasium at 2, 3 and 4 o'clock.

In addition to the above forms of exercise. Freshmen will also be able to elect swimming to satisfy their requirements. During the afternoon the Big Tree Swimming Pool will be used for the required swimming classes solely for those Freshmen who are unable to swim.

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