Word: crickets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pinocchio (Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket. Geppetto, Figaro, Monstro, J. Worthington Foulfellow, Giddy; TIME...
Limitations on the pitcher the hitter's ball, and what naturally followed--overwork--has doomed these great flingers. Committee after committee has honestly been after some system to de-rabbit the pellet and stop turning the game into cricket, but nothing has happened constructively. Perhaps this new pitching rule will help. We can only hope so. Because this is one war we want to keep...
Only U. S. college with a varsity cricket team is Philadelphia's 107-year-old Haverford. An English gardener, who landscaped the college's trim, stately campus back in the 18505, introduced the sport, and up to 1925 Haverford regularly sent teams to compete on England's playing fields. By English standards, Haverford's cricket has never been of a very high order. When the British cruiser Exeter (conqueror of the German pocket battleship Graf Spee-TIME, Dec. 25) put into Philadelphia last spring, its tarry cricketers bowled over the Haverfords with ease. The Haverfords consoled...
...Uncle" is the undergraduate monicker for Haverford presidents. Present uncle is genial, cricket-playing William Wistar ("Uncle Billy") Comfort, highbrowed classicist and devout Quaker, who can, with equal facility, trace a word to its Sanskrit root and a piece of undergraduate mischief to its only begetter. Haverford graduate (1894) and son of a graduate, in his 23-year presidency he has doubled the college's teaching staff and endowment ($4,500,000), kept the student body and intercollegiate athletics* down. Says he: ". . . The country needs an exhibit of quality, rather than quantity in education...
Pinocchio (Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket, Geppetto, Figaro, Monstro J. Worthington Foulfellow, Giddy; TIME...