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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 248

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ny such casesof pluck and perseverance asgirls keep advancing fromone class in swimming to thenext by passing variousstrokes and dives. Keen excitement is added tothis by the record-chart, a Inilletin, kept hangingin a conspicuous place, which records tiie ad-vancement of every girl in camp. To see… … IHi; JUY Ul TlUi .-jLIUE dive to the jack-knife, the amount and kind de-pending upon the policy of tlie camp. The idealof the girls camps is to emphasize good form,rather than speed or long-distance swimming, andthe al)ility to meet any emergency in the water,

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