Word: polos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...song says, a polo player without a pony is like a ship without a sail. The recently reactivated Crimson polo team, which has just completed a six-game first postwar season, is probably the only aggregation of its kind ever to do the job under borrowed canvas...
According to Sandy Calhoun, who held a respectable one-goal handicap from the American Polo Association before the war as a result of his play at Manila, these practice facilities are all that Harvard needs to regain its former prominent position among Eastern college polo teams...
Calhoun points out that, without exception, his fellow pony-pushers have had previous experience on the polo fields. Besides his own Manila participation, which was shared in a lesser degree by his younger brother Tom, team members have played in the Argentine and on squads in New York, Cleveland, and Arizona...
Swinging two-foot-long nightsticks like polo mallets, the mounted cops rode the mob into the gutters. Their allies on foot clubbed away with professional impartiality. In the garish, winking light men & women in agitated clumps struggled, groaned, desisted, fled. A news photographer was roughed up. Picket signs were splintered, leaflets shredded, clothing ripped. A cop shoved a matronly lady. "Sir," she murmured reproachfully, "I'm an innocent bystander." "Lady," he answered in sweaty exasperation, "if you was innocent you wouldn't be here." Five men were arrested...
...student organizations have asked for a subsidy of some sort this year and we could easily spend a hundred thousand dollars a year assisting various activities. Obviously we can not subsidize the Band unless we are also willing to subsidize the Glee Club and the Debating Council and the Polo Team and the Orchestra and the Dramatic Society and the Advocate and possibly the HYD or even the Lampoon. It might be difficult to decide whether the HYD or the Lampoon were more worthy of University financial support. At any rate, opinions would differ. Furthermore, if the University subsidized...