Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Horace Dutton Taft, brother of U. S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Howard Taft, evolve into an eminent educator. Last year he took Taft School out of his own pocketbook, gave it to a self-perpetuating board of trustees. He continued to serve as headmaster. His boys have a golf course and a fine football field, but they are more likely to excel in Latin and things musical. They lack adequate housing. So last week began a campaign to raise $2,000,000, more than half of which will be used for new buildings. Edward Stephen Harkness, Manhattan financier, whose...
...There is no use in your trying to train your pupils for leadership. The graduates of our old high schools are out playing golf while the real leaders who never saw the inside of a high school are herding the voters to the polls...
...order that golf may be made more available as a means of exercise, two indoor golf nets have been installed in Hemenway Gymnasium, by the Harvard Athletic Association, according to an announcement made yesterday by N. W. Fradd, director of Hemenway Gymnasium...
...University Golf Team will also have the use of these nets in its early practices. In the past the team has been limited because of the lack of a course, within convenient distance. In addition to setting up the practice nets, the H. A. A. has made arrangements for 24 memberships of a limited nature at the Belmont Springs Country Club for the University and Freshman squads. This arrangement will give the Crimson golfers an official and independent home for their practice sessions during the coming season...
Weighing 216 pounds, George Herman Ruth, 35, joined the Yankee training camp at St. Petersburg, Fla., to start his fourteenth year in pro baseball. Dazzy Vance, Brooklyn pitcher, held out for a new contract at $20,000 a year, insisted on a clause that would allow him to play golf for one day after each game he pitched. "I lose," he said, "about twelve pounds in every game...