Word: coke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oddly enough the winner of the last Hoop Race, Ester Coke, is also president of a far less familiar and newer Wellesley tradition, the Daisies. Not to be confused with Vassar's Daisy chain, this society is an organization of lethargic seniors dedicated to the purpose of being as inactive as possible. There are several underclass exceptions, who by exceptional feats, like spending over six hours a day in the Well snack bar, are accepted to the fold...
...abiding, sporting, and uniform." And under either, the individual soul attempting to follow its "native bent" might find itself in a spiritual concentration camp. Since he dreads the export of America's "commercial" culture as much as any French intellectual who winces at the sight of a Coke, Santayana feels that perhaps the "barbarians" of the East might organize the future better than the "decadent" technicians of the West. "Conviction has deserted the civilized mind; and a good conscience exists only at the extreme left, in that crudely deluded mass of plethoric humanity which perhaps forms the substance...
Although she has no plans for the next race. The Race to the Altar, Miss Coke claims that she prefers running on the track at Trinity College to any of the local surfaces...
WABAN, May 1--Esther Coke, a Blue Grass bred filly, today won the 69th running of the annual Wellesley Hoop Classic before 2,000 screaming fans at Waban Downs...
...Coke, listed at 35-1 in the morning odds, recovered nicely after a bad start, and led the 374 entrants to the wire in the near-record time of 1:153. Gretchen Fruden took place money, following the winner home by three lengths...