Swim Test to Become Co-Ed

Beginning this fall, the swim test will be simultaneously administered to students of both genders. My freshman year, the girls took the test at Helen Newman while the boys were sent to Teagle.

Times article from earlier in the month:

One of the earliest [swim tests] was at Cornell, which still requires it. In 1918, the women’s phys ed director decided it was “part of a complete education for a nice young woman to know how to swim,” according to Fred Debruyn, Cornell’s aquatics director. Cornell men dived in two decades later, as did men at hundreds of universities after the Red Cross urged them to get fit for combat in World War II. (Cornell men and women will be tested together for the first time next fall.)

The article also includes a graphic which compares Cornell's requirements to those at other schools.