Word: polo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With one of the largest turnouts in years, the 1930-1931 polo season was opened yesterday afternoon when 37 candidates reported to Captain F. D. Sharp for the University and Freshman squads...
...unusually large Freshman squad also reported, when 26 first year men signed up to take polo as their fall sport. Six of these men have had previous experience: Lowell Dillingham '34, in Hawall: J. L. Johnson '34, at Santa Barbara; A. B. Marvin '34, at Rockaway; F. B. Richardson '34, at Dedham; S. S. Sands '34, at Aiken; and P. A. Shaw '34. No regular schedule will be attempted in the fall, with most of the time being devoted to a few practices weekly on the field behind the Business School, work for beginners on the wooden horse, and other...
Members of the Freshman and Sophomore Classes are offered numerous opportunities to compete for managerial positions during the next few days. By Monday competitions will have opened for soceer, crew, and polo managerships...
...previous period Captain Roark's little brown mare Joy Bells suddenly went lame. Helped off the field, Joy Bells was found to have a broken pastern in her right foreleg. Spectators were happy to hear that although she will never play polo again, she will not be destroyed. "For sentimental reasons" she will be carefully nursed until the leg mends, then she will pass the rest of her useful life foaling...
...neglecting one's work in order to laugh. They are perfectly plain middle class people and as such are charming neighbors. But they have the notion that as someone else has three cars they must have three, and if other folk ride horses and pretend to understand polo they must do the same. In England they would know their place. They would certainly learn not to wear jodpurs when they go to the grocer...