Word: polo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...line of arrows has been placed from Memorial Hall to the Myopia Hunt Club in Hamilton by the Harvard Polo Club to guide spectators from Cambridge to Hamilton, where the Harvard and Yale Polo Teams clash tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. This promises to be one of the outstanding polo matches of the season...
...long tale of man's investigation of his terres trial abode is unfolded in the 338 pages of A History of Exploration, by Brigadier General Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes, him self a distinguished traveler-soldier. The story lingers admiringly with such illustrious voyageurs as Leif the Viking, Marco Polo, Diaz and Vasco da Gama, Columbus and Magellan, Livingstone and Stanley. Doughty and Lawrence, Peary, Scott and Shackleton, but does not neglect a multitude of colorful, less familiar figures. There is Hsuan-tsang, the studious, well born Buddhist monk who, fortified by a dream, passed beyond the Great Wall...
...polls this week and select their party candidates for the November elections. For Governor- The regular Democratic State Committee backed George Hansell Earle 3rd's gubernatorial candidacy. Candidate Earle, 43, is vice president of Pennsylvania Sugar Co. For 20 years he was one of the best polo players on Philadelphia's sporting Main Line. His grandfather presided at the first Republican National Convention, but Mr. Earle was early on the Roosevelt Bandwagon. For his campaign efforts the President made him Minister to Austria, a post he resigned last March to run for Governor of Pennsylvania. Last week...
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...Democratic administration has not as yet brought back the old-time football crowds which paid for everything from kangaroo-leather running shoes to the heavenly-scented rubbing-oil. Among the possibilities which have been mentioned are those of establishing an athletic endowment by some of our more solvent polo-playing graduates, and the taxing of Freshmen for their required exercise. These both carry heavy disadvantages and are not in accord with the established tradition of the H.A.A...