John Hart is a husky, mustachioed resident of Dunster House who without doubt must be considered the Eroteric Sport champion of Harvard University. In a world where football, baseball, and basketball dominate spectator interest and the sport pages. Hart has plugged steadily along and is now firmly established as the finest single scaller, cross-country skier, and Wellesley bike racer in the University.

Success in these seemingly unrelated fields has not been easy for Hart, but it has flowed from a common source. The 20-year-old New Haven resident has tremendous wind-power. He can keep rowing, skiing, or pedal-pushing long after lesser men have given up. Therefore he is a success.

Hart started out like a normal clean-cut American boy at Putney School in Vermont. Skiing was the big thing at Putney, and in his freshman year there he took it up. By his last year he had become proficient enough to be the student instructor in the sport.

Since his freshman year he has been a mainstay of the Crimson skiers in both the five to nine mile cross-country races and the jumping events. In cross-country skiing, Hart explains, "there are three factors--wax, technique, and determination. I don't have much technique, and anyone can buy wax." Hart has lost few races to other Harvard skiiers in the past few years, and in his sophomore year won the Amberst Winter Carnival event.

In sculling, a sport which he took up at the end of his freshman year because he needed some sort of physical credit, Hart is now being trained for the Olympics by rowing coach Blake Dennison Hart's progress in the sport has been steady and rapid. In his first year he was second in the University wherries, as a sophomore he was a finalist in the novice singles, and last year he came in first in the New England championships, and second in the Middle States.

Hart feels that he has an outside chance for the Olympic especially if he can improve his starts. Until training for skiing started he practiced under Dennison several hours a day.

Most awesome of Hart's sporting accomplishments to many observers was his triumph last year in the Cambridge-to-Wellesley bike race, an event which he had also won the year before. Last spring, in the balloon tire class, he turned in a time which was only thirteen seconds slower than the racing-bike winner's.

Dunster House friends are understandably a bit in awe of Hart. He is known as the only man in the College who, when he asks "Does anyone want to take a run over to Watertown with me?" really means a run.