Word: pinging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would not be shocked. But if you asked Lo Wenching to play a game of table tennis, his small Chinese face, no longer inscrutable, would assume an appalled expression, as though you had insulted one of his ancestors. Lo Wenching comes from Peiping and he learned to play ping-pong at Tsing-Hua University. He, like other ping-pong players, hates mention of table tennis because so many people confuse it with ping-pong which is played with patented equipment, on a standard court, by standard rules...
Bright young Instructor Rice spends most of his time in Harvard's Edward Mallinckrodt Chemical Laboratory, refreshes himself with tennis, squash, ping pong. When notice of Dr. Rice's kudos came to him last week, it came in a telegraph envelope marked portentously "Do not 'phone." He received it on the stoop of his Cambridge boarding house, commented: "Very unexpected. I thought it a death message...
...seem to support the argument. A House Committee, whose real purpose is not altogether clear, does exist. It canvassed the members for a House Fund which, after two relatively unsuccessful attempts, was abandoned without further effort. The two tangible results of its activity are a radio and a ping pong table, but as a rule the Committee is more honored in the breach than in the observance. The students themselves have had a large hand in whatever functions have been proposed, without any interference from the Master. The various dances have been arranged by the members who have deemed such...
...with Eliot and Winthrop House, have been fairly well patronized. But in other sports Kirkland has failed to take any important part. There are hopes that a crew will be mustered to challenge the longer established rivals for the honors of the Charles. Where other House sports have languished, ping-pong has flourished and the bare green room in the basement of G entry rings with the noise of battle...
...ping-pong tournament will be held in Randolph Hall beginning about March 1. Entries will close Saturday, February 27. Each participant is expected to contribute ten cents towards a prize for the winner...