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Last June there came from the Department of Athletics the announcement of a rather major change in Harvard athletic policy: Beginning with the current academic year, lacrosse and golf will be dropped from the ranks of "regular team sports...
Specifically, this means that "the College will continue to provide coaching and fields for lacrosse and coaching for golf, and students may still receive insignia in these sports, but initiative in organizing teams and schedules must now come from the students rather than the Athletic Department. The College will not pay for trips or any new equipment...
...addition to the cross country changes, the H.A.A. has withheld financing of teams and equipment for lacrosse and golf (the latter has been a Harvard team-sport since 1896). Travel budgets for existing varsity squads are being reduced, and major renovations, including badly-needed resurfacing of the tennis courts, are being deferred. College support for the sailing, skiing, rifle and pistol teams is also being...
...spoilsport. Dr. Jordan believes that digestive cripples should be encouraged to exercise in moderation and go out for noncompetitive sports, e.g., golf between husband and wife, or tennis doubles between two couples. A keen early-morning golfer herself, she is the only woman member of Marblehead's Tedesco Country Club allowed to play on Sundays...
When not busy making money, Charlie Goren, nagged by an inner streak of loneliness, likes to go where people are. He is an inveterate Broadway theatergoer, a football and baseball addict. His active sport is golf, at which he is a good bridge player, shooting about 100. Now and then he sallies out of his modest Manhattan apartment to play some nonbusiness but highly serious bridge with the experts who hang out at Manhattan's Cavendish and Regency clubs. When he plays bridge with nonexpert celebrities, as he often does, Goren is perhaps the world's most tolerant...