Word: cricket
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Previous to its departure for England the University tennis team will engage in two more contests on American-soil. On June 27 it will enter the Intercollegiates on the Merion Cricket Club courts in Haverford, Pa., and two days before this the Crimson netmen will oppose the Seabright players at Seabright, N. J. Only four men are allowed to enter the Intercollegiates from each college so that the whole Harvard team will not make the trip to Haverford. J. F. W. Whitbeck '27, L. H. Gordon '27, and B. H. Whitbeck '29 have already been picked while the choice...
...University second tennis team defeated the Weston Club at the LOngwood Cricket Club, Chestnut Hill, Saturday afternoon by a score of 7 to 1 and the Freshman tennis team defeated Dean Academy 6-0. Hill, Ward, Ingraham, Trask, Ware and Cross played on the first year team...
...through its possession of a self-contained theatre plant with two stages-regular and studio size. The aims and achievements of the "little" or independent theatre movement, of which the Play House is a product and an exponent, bear about the same relation to commercial drama as English cricket bears to big-league baseball...
...capital cities. There are six universities, one in each of these cities. The largest is the University of Sydney, the two smallest are the Universities of West Australia and Tasmania. Australians lead an open air life: games are possible the year round. The most popular sports are cricket, tennis and football. In the two former Australia has for many years disputed the world's supremacy...
Saying why this should be so is like trying to say why some leaves have crickets living under them while others have not. When Artist Arthur Rackham adjusts his cuffs and sets out to put part of a story into a picture, his fancy slips cricket-wise into the subject, in small surprising lines that never reveal what they are about until they have done it. Some are firm lines with tiny hairs on them, like a cricket's thigh. Some are more delicate and hesitant, like timid creatures creeping from crannies. Some are wry and perverse, like...