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SPORTS CLOTHES: More than half a century before the women鈥檚 rowing team became Rochester鈥檚 23rd varsity sport (see page聽22), the dress code for women taking part in physical education was decidedly different. As an example of student life from another era, Barbara (Bobbe) Sykes Walter 鈥�50, of Racine, Wis., donated a three-piece gym suit of the kind worn by women students in the 1940s and 1950s. Now housed in the University Archives, the suit includes a note from Walter: 鈥淚t was a comfortable outfit indoors or outdoors鈥攎odern dance, calisthenics, field hockey, tennis. Whatever.鈥�(Photo: Richard Baker)