Word: pong
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sidney S. Lenz, they say, who brought auction bridge to the Western world. Originally a box-manufacturer in Michigan, he had tried all indoor sports and wearied of them through sheer dexterity. He had bowled and become a champion. The ping and pong of pingpong, in all their manifold trajectories, were so simple to his touch that it became a bore for him to play with most people, unless he had a book to read at the same time. His bureau drawers were cluttered with medals for billiards, his shelves with cups for golf. He went off around the world...
...enormous popularity of the game has injected into college athletic. But we have never seen it properly blamed for the extravagant sentimentality which is associated with the thing called college spirit. How could one die for dear old Rutgers except in an intercollegiate football game? Baseball, track, ping-pong, checkers--these hardly call for the lethal effort. One doesn't feel like debating or swimming "for God, for Country and for Yale." It is intercollegiate football alone that brings the rah, rah business so close to tears and mush...
Crew A.--Bow, J. W. Lund '26; 2, H. G. Curran '25; 3, W. J. Milde '25; 4, P. F. Pong '25; 5, Moorfield Story '26; 6, J. de W. Blosser '26; 7, R. M. P. Kennard '26; stroke, Seabury Cook '25; cox., A. M. Carrillo...
...hose are not bought by their indulgent parents. And their printing costs are not borne by second-hand clothing dealers and the subscriptions of those who unless they subscribe must remain in the darkest ignorance concerning their examinations in the Economics of Agriculture and their status on the ping-pong team...