Brave Rescue from University Launch

Yesterday afternoon, as the University crew, on its way upstream after practice, was going under the Cottage Farms bridge, it passed a canoe with two students in it. The men were absorbed in watching the crew, and by some mishap overturned their canoe just as the launch, which was following the shell, passed by them.

The launch was within twenty feet of the overturned canoe, and J. S. Reed '10, candidate for managership of the crew, who was on board the launch, dived overboard and went to the rescue of the two men. Assistant Secretary of State Robert Bacon, who was also on board the launch, followed Reed to help him with the struggling men. One of the men was unable to swim, and was rescued just before he went down for the third time. Both men were taken on board the launch, and the canoe was towed to the boathouse.