Word: ping-pong
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...that the enormous popularity of the game has injected into college athletic. But we have never seen it properly blamed for the extravagant sentimentality which is associated with the thing called college spirit. How could one die for dear old Rutgers except in an intercollegiate football game? Baseball, track, ping-pong, checkers--these hardly call for the lethal effort. One doesn't feel like debating or swimming "for God, for Country and for Yale." It is intercollegiate football alone that brings the rah, rah business so close to tears and mush...
...golf hose are not bought by their indulgent parents. And their printing costs are not borne by second-hand clothing dealers and the subscriptions of those who unless they subscribe must remain in the darkest ignorance concerning their examinations in the Economics of Agriculture and their status on the ping-pong team...
...great mistake not to have Harvard get into the game. If there is anybody in the spectators' seats who is expert at ping-pong or bridge-whist, and does not appreciate the hard work and intense interest the coach and the players are putting into the game, whatever the result, let him at least stop coming down to the field simply to criticise and offer namby-pamby suggestions. Let him show rather that he has some spirit, energy and enthusiasm...