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Harvard's table tennis team emerged as the King of the Hill in eastern ping-pong Saturday, defeating a 16-team field to win the Northeast Intercollegiate Table Tennis League championship at Rutgers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Pongmen Win Eastern Title | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

When B.F.Skinner wants to write, he explained to students at a dinner several years ago, he manipulates his personal environment just as he does the environment of the pigeons that he wants to play ping-pong. He adjusts temperature and humidity in the writing room to optimal levels. He dangles some reward--a meal, for instance--in front of himself and lets himself eat only when his allotted writing stint is completed. The writing of a Skinner work is the culmination of years of behavioral preparation. Skinner takes copious notes on many of his thoughts and actions and then files...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Carrots and Sticks | 10/13/1977 | See Source »

Chris Downey '81 said, "This weekend I'll probably be playing pinball, pool and ping-pong. If I'm lucky, I'll get a date. And I'll probably study...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Long Weekend Arrives | 10/8/1977 | See Source »

From the inside, they all looked pretty much the same save an occasional starspangled ping-pong table or the number of initials carved in the woodwork. Most had barren living rooms upstairs and basements with long dark-wood bars, ping-pong tables, and bench-lined, graffiti decorated walls...

Author: By Mike A. Calabrese and J.h. Yeager, S | Title: Harvard Havoc Reigns in Hanover | 10/19/1976 | See Source »

Traveling along fraternity row...three frat men wrestling on a beer-soaked basement floor...a Harvard man discussing ICBMs and Mutually Assured Destruction with a Skidmore freshman...frat men playing ping-pong for beers while scores watched...three Harvard and two Smith students forced to sleep in a Volkswagen Rabbit...and of course an exuberant Harvard football manager waltzing through the streets of Hanover at 1 a.m. with a purloined...

Author: By Mike A. Calabrese and J.h. Yeager, S | Title: Harvard Havoc Reigns in Hanover | 10/19/1976 | See Source »

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