Word: athleticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Equal Advantage. The credit that Semenenko raised has given Curtis much-needed time to recover. Among its unresolved problems is a spate of five libel suits. Last summer a Georgia jury awarded $3,060,000 in damages to Georgia University Athletic Director Wally Butts, whom a Post article had accused...
Non-participants in Radcliffe's voluntary athletic program tend to think themselves intellectual and attractive, while participants classify themselves as "all-American" but "plain Jane," Mrs. Barbara B. Pillinger, sports instructor at Radcliffe, said yesterday.
In Briggs and Eliot Halls, 55 per cent of the 'Cliffies participated in sports, and 45 per cent never joined an activity offered under the voluntary athletic program, which was initiated in 1961. Although only 44 girls are included in the responses from these two houses, Mrs. Pillinger stated that...
The questionnaire showed that the athletic participant herself tall, overweight, and uncoordinated, while the non-participants were more self-assured, assessing themselves as of medium height and weight, and graceful bearing. Mrs. Pillinger noted that not one 'Cliffie checked the box titled "underweight."
Where women were concerned, Louis combined a grasshopper's attention span with the appetite of a tiger. Pompadour, who suffered from tuberculosis, desperately sought to divert him to less athletic pursuits, like amateur theatricals, at which she was gifted, and small dinner parties where the king could "pour his...