Word: badminton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Owen did not stop there, said the court. When players needed easy academic credits, he allowed them,to take courses in "handball, basketball, volley ball, touch football and individual gymnastics." Defendant George Chianakis got credit for "elementary badminton, elements of tumbling, golf and boxing." Melchiorre, who needed an extra credit to graduate, "selected an hour of social and square dancing" with a class of Bradley coeds. "It was," said he, "an entertaining course...
...week Du Pont opened Winterthur as a public museum. Guests found over a hundred of its rooms made into authentic re-creations of American living quarters from 1640 to 1840. Winterthur's indoor bowling alley had become an 18th Century shop lane gleaming with china and pewterware. The badminton court was now a cobbled indoor square with fine old house fronts on three sides, and the brick façade of an inn from Red Lion, Del. on the fourth. Even the elevators were finished in antique American paneling. Among the prize exhibits: a set of silver tankards made...
...varsity tennis team trimmed Dartmouth, 6 to 3, Friday in its last match of the season on indoor courts at the Brookline Country Club and the Badminton and Tennis Club. The Yardling match with the freshmen was rained out meanwhile, so that the Crimson freshmen ended the year with a perfect record, the first for any postwar freshman team...
...Crimson went indoors at both the Brookline Country Club and the Badminton and Tennis Club Friday to trounce Pennsylvania for the first time in three years, 6 to 3. Then Saturday at Soldiers Field, the Crimson scored seven straight victories to make the Army match official before a downpour stopped the second and third doubles matches...
Anne Worthington and Sally Vincent copped the Radcliffe dormitory badminton tournament for Cabot Hall this week...