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...Harvard’s ban on chalk—the stuff of hop-scotch and four-square—is an anachronistic attempt to preserve a nonexistent dream of a pristine Yard. Let’s let that attempt cede to a dream of a campus environment teeming with messages. The power of the pen and the power of the chalk stub are not so far apart...

Author: By Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: Chalk It Up | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...haul out the old launchers-versus-warheads stall offense, arguing that parity already exists and that Washington is the culprit behind continuing NATO-Warsaw Pact tension. Grandstand experts will keep track of SS-20s and Pershing 2s: Time magazine will run charts showing cartoon missilemen arm wrestling or playing hop-scotch--one wearing Uncle Sam's top hat, the other a Cossack's headgear...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Strategic Objectives | 11/25/1981 | See Source »

...Brattle Hall yesterday afternoon, Oswald Twittleberg '38 hopped to a thrilling one-lap victory to win the all-collegiate hopscotch championship of New England. Because this is the second consecutive year that the Crimson hoppers have won the meet, a petition is being circulated demanding that hop-scotch be made a major sport...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWITTLEBERG HOPS TO VICTORY | 4/1/1938 | See Source »

...students have forsaken "hop-scotch" for the more fascinating game of "nigger baby...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT OTHER COLLEGES. | 5/18/1877 | See Source »

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