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100 years ago, September 18, 1907

The sports section includes an instructional article on how to swim. The average swimmer-to-be, says the writer, requires six to 10 lessons to master the art of not drowning. The author makes a point to discourage the age-old technique of throwing a kid in a river and (assuming he survives) teaching him to swim.

50 years ago, September 24, 1957

A Tartan writer enrolled in Margaret Morrison Carnegie College complains that none of her classes have any boys in them. Sure, she writes, the boys don’t want to take cooking or sewing, but they wouldn’t be so out of place in classes like English and history. 50 years later, take a seat behind one of those all-work, no-shower boys, and you’ll see why some people...