Word: polos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...held on March 18, the usual time for the dance. But it was decided that this winter an earlier date would be tried, in view of the athletic events and other attractions falling on the weekend of March 3. Among the important events are the hockey and indoor polo games with Yale, the former at the Arena, the latter in Commonwealth Armory...
...young man is once inoculated with the polo germ, he never recovers, he will play the game the rest of his life," asserted Devereux Milburn, famous internationalist player in an interview with the CRIMSON reporter recently. Mr. Milburn, a graduate of the Harvard Law School, is one of three ten-goal handicap men in the country and is considered by experts to be the game's greatest exponent...
...Polo, unfortunately, is an expensive game," asserted Mr. Milburn, "but for large colleges it is as capable of paying its way as football. As a sporting spectacle it contains all the elements of speed, skill, and physical contact that are appreciated by an American audience...
...problem of popularizing polo at Harvard or any other college is simply that of obtaining enough publicity and getting men initially interested. The attractions of the game, I am sure, will hold anyone once acquainted with them. It is very much to the interest of the game that polo at colleges should become organized. The number of players developed by private clubs and by the army is comparatively limited; the need is for an increased supply of young poloists, trained in intercollegiate matches and ready to reinforce the veterans...
Undeniably industrious, able, ambitious, well-born,* clever, Robert Clarkson has attracted his quota of envy. He is often seen edging, a few minutes late, into his box at polo, at the horseshow, at the theatre, at prizefights. Recognizing him at these events, casual acquaintances wonder when he finds time to do his work. They would probably fail to identify his round gay face of a somewhat sophisticated cherub with the intent, solemn, face which, late at night has been seen bending over Robert Clarkson's desk...