Word: cheeking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Informal scrub hockey teams, established on the same basis as the touch football teams which were so successful last fall, will replace class hockey, M. A. Cheek '26 definitely announced yesterday. This is another step in the direction of "sports for all", and will make in possible to accommodate many men who otherwise would not be able to play...
Last fall the new policy of "athletics for all", instituted by Mr. Bingham, received active expression in a successful and highly enthusiastic class football season. Class football had been tried before with disappointing results. Under the able leadership of the Athletic Director and M. A. Cheek '26 the difficulties heretofore apparently insurmountable were overcome. But class eleven football,, excellent as it is, affects not over 80 or 90 men at the most. It was distinctly a step in the right direction but it was not yet "athletics for all". We were impressed, but we awaited with interest further developments...
Sculptor Harold P. Erskine, of Manhattan, also an habitué of Africa, tendered to the American Museum a bust of his friend, Akeley, gaunt of jaw, shaggy of head with elephant scars on his cheek...
...emeralds, rubies and sapphires. In a way he knew diamonds too, but he did not like them, least of all when he saw them wired on the stomacher of the Manhattan dame of a Civil War profiteer. And he did love pearls; liked to caress them against his cheek. He knew where he could get them. They were sewed on the bridal finery of Jewish girls in Poland; they were beaded on the silk and velvet covers of the Blessed Scroll of Laws in synagogues. Cossacks brought pearls to the Polish Jews; carried them from beyond the Caucasians, from Bokhara...
...regard to the success of the first touch football season and the future possibilities of the sport at the University, M. A. Cheek, Jr., '26, who directed the activity this fall, stated yesterday "I expect that twice as many teams will sign up for touch football next year as reported this season. The league will have to be organized earlier and will require enlarged playing facilities...