Word: hooping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First on the program yesterday was Hugh Shepley '51, pictured at right practicing his specialty as a ringer in the annual Wellesley hoop races. Shepley also claimed acquaintanceship with indian clubs, rubber balls, and chinaware...
...Sophomore Rush, except that at Barnard they dress it up a bit and call it the Greek Games. The Greek Games consist of chariot races--one girl pulling, another wielding the whip and other Grecoid divertisements. The Games are reputed to be an even finer spectacle than the Wellesley Hoop Race...
...done before any battle would begin"; but she had scarcely "put my bread in the pans when the cannons began to fire"-and the Battle of Gettysburg was under way. When Sallie Broadhead turned to her diary at nightfall, "the town was full of the filthy Rebels," cock-a-hoop with success: "all is quiet, but 0! how I dread tomorrow...
...Saturday morning at 7:15 o'clock Gardner's fiancee, Polly Auger, trundled her hoop across the Wellesley College finish line in a history-making tie for first place...
Polly's dead-heat companion was Carmen Ogden, and as Gardner and the winning girls posed for sleepy camera men, a benevoleut sun gave the colorful annual classic one of its first pleasant days in many years of hoop rolling...