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Show GIANT'S UNIFORM IS NEEDED FOR OARSMAN BOSTOX, Mass., June 14. Francis Parkman, Harvard's giant varsity oarsman, oars-man, will be a marine, provided the corps can furnish a big enough uniform. Parkman is six feet four inches in height two inches above the maximum in the marine corps. When he applied for enlistment a few days after the Harvard Har-vard crew had defeated Yale, the recruiting re-cruiting officers were so enthusiastic over his splendid physical condition they telegraphed to Washington for special permission to waive the rule limiting the height of recruits. Today authorization to enlist the athlete was received, with the stipulation, "provided you can fit him with a uniform." |