Word: polo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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University and Freshmen polo players assembled at the Commonwealth Armory yesterday for the beginning of the indoor polo season. The squads will play in two divisions, one on Mondays and Wednesdays and the other on Tuesdays and Thursdays...
...University polo team schedule is as follows: February 14, Army at West Point; February 21, Cincinuati Riding Club and the Cleveland Cavalry at Cincinnati; February 28, Yale at New Haven; March 7, Jayvees play Yale at New Haven; March 14, Yale. There will also be games with Norwich University, the Turkey Hill Riding Club of Worcester, Danvers, and the Intercollegiate Tournament at New York City on dates not yet arranged, as well as the regular games with local teams played at the Commonwealth Armory...
...would not belittle England My forebears came from there And remembered with the kindest thoughts Their native country fair. ButI thank God for the U. S. A. The country of the free Where I may play at Polo Or own my autos three. Or even wear my jodpurs, If I do not act the clown, When I am buying groceries In the centre of the town. When the only place we need to know Is just as near the Sun As we can climb, in the short time Before our day is done. And you, too, Mr. William, May hold...
...addition to the attraction of receiving academic recognition for work in these fields, the government enables the Departments of Naval and Military Science to offer other inducements of salary, polo, uniforms and pleasant summer activities. All of these gestures are devised with the single purpose of detracting men from following their natural academic work. Yet in spite of these questionable methods of high pressure salesmanship, and the fact that those courses are not in accordance with the academic standards of Harvard University, Naval and Military Science are allowed to remain as part of the college curriculum. Founded as an extra...
...held him prisoner two years. He escaped, lived in Constantinople a while disguised as a German governess, as a German mechanic, was recaptured, escaped again only a fortnight before the Armistice. After the War he went back to India, is now a major. He was still good at polo and played on the team which won the 1922 Inter-regimental and Cavalry tournaments. In 1924 he retired on pension, became polo correspondent for the London Times, assistant editor of the London Spectator...