Word: hooping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Imitating an old Hopi Indian fertility rite, 300 eager, but determined Wellesley seniors weathered competition from outsiders and other obstacles to take part in the annual May Day hoop race yesterday...
They were off and running on a fast track at Wellesley this morning, as Waban seniors officially pushed the 1952 outdoor season into high gear. Rumor has it that a long-shot filly coasted in over the tried and proven mudders in the Hoop Downs classic, but the name and odds of the winner have not yet come in over local wires...
...highest in Waban natives early this morning, in the traditional battle for the class's first husband, foremost in the thoughts of every maiden filly entered. Every year just before the hoop classic word leaks out that groups of maidens have put their heads together to set up a fix, in which some girls will block while one girl rolls through to victory...
...clear hard track faced almost 400 Wellesley seniors this morning in the 69th running of the annual Waban Hoop Race. Several hundred Harvard men had already gathered before the 7 a.m. post time brought the fillies to the wire...
South Africa was divided between festival and fear. The festival, opened last week by Prime Minister Daniel Malan's government, celebrated the 300th anniversary of the landing at Cape Town from the Dutch ship Goede Hoop of South Africa's first white settlers. They entered a vast, fertile country, empty except for a handful of aborigines. But as their ox-wagons rolled north, they collided with the southward-marching legions of the black Bantu tribes. The blacks now outnumber the whites 8,000,000 to 2,500,000. From that fact grows South Africa's fear...