The swim test’s history differs for men and women. Colonel Frank Barton 1891 — who served as an early leader of Cornell’s student cadet corps — made the swim test a requirement for ...

ITHACA, N.Y. — Cornell University has suspended its swim test for the fall semester, which is ordinarily required for students to graduate, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The university canceled ...

In 2003, Ferrum College in Virginia dropped its swim test. Colgate threw in the towel last year. The holdouts now include Notre Dame, MIT, Cornell, Columbia, Hamilton, Dartmouth, Swarthmore ...

Three Ivy League colleges — Columbia and Cornell universities and Dartmouth College — still require their students to pass a swim test before graduation. So do the University of Notre Dame ...

ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) — Cornell University will not conduct its 115-year-old swim test this fall due to the pandemic. The Ivy League school confirmed Wednesday it was waiving the requirement for ...

In 2003, Ferrum College in Virginia dropped its swim test. Colgate threw in the towel last year. The holdouts now include Notre Dame, MIT, Cornell, Columbia, Hamilton, Dartmouth, Swarthmore ...

Three Ivy League colleges — Columbia and Cornell universities and Dartmouth College — still require their students to pass a swim test before graduation. So do the University of Notre Dame ...

This got us thinking about other fitness tests required for graduation, specifically the dwindling swim test. One of the earliest was at Cornell, which still requires it. In 1918, the women’s ...