<p>On the swim test from Myth Information <a href=“http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0408/features/index.shtml[/url]”>http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0408/features/index.shtml</a> (some great reading in this article).</p>
<p>“As for the swimming requirementCollege students must take both a general physical-education test and a swimming testdirector of physical education and athletics Tom Weingartner does not know when or why the University adopted the policy. The Urban Legends Reference Pages explain, Requiring graduates to pass a swim test seems to have originated about the time of World War I, as part of a Red Cross effort to teach swimming skills to all Americans. Though the Universitys first swimming pool was part of Ida Noyes Hall, required swimming courses did not appear in the undergraduate course catalog until 195455.”</p>