Word: pong
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suggested during the meeting that a committee be appointed to undertake the purchase of a reliable Ping Pong outfit. For some time the discussion raged, as the issue seemed an important one. Finally the motion was overthrown. The winning argument was that a Ping-Pong set would make too much noise...
...citizens who are weary of bridge, ping-pong, cards-in-the-hat, yet who cannot endure the strain of an evening without a game in some form, were last week offered a new and original pastime invented by so famed an author as Norman Angell, British economist and pacifist. Called The Money Game and published by E. P. Dutton & Co. in the unique form of an explanatory book bound with a box of cards, the new entertainment purports to combine the thrill of cards with instruction in finance...
After the committees have been selected, the members will meet with proctors of the dormitories periodically to discuss problems and questions for the improvement of the halls. Besides attending to such matters as procuring ping-pong tables, victrolas, or radios, the members of the committee will collect money from each man in the dormitory as a fund with which to arrange for dormitory smokers, and provide magazines for the common rooms...
Proof of the growing interest in ping-pong at Harvard is furnished by the popularity of the tournament, now being conducted by Harry Cowles Squash and Tennis Shop, in which many prominent squash and ten-is players are entered. Heading the list of seeded men is M. T. Hill '31. Other seeded players are H. M. Culley, Gurdon Worcester, A. G. Thacher Jr. '29, R. S. Kazanjian 2G., G. H. Perkins 3S.A., W. J. Iselin '29, and A. Ingraham '30. B. H. Whitbeck '29, captain of the University tennis team, and T. E. Jansen '26, runner-up in the State...
...Ping-pong tables have been installed in the Union, Gore Hall, the Harvard CRIMSON, and several clubs in the University. A Freshman tournament is in progress at Gore, and installation of a duplicate outfit in the Smith Halls common room is being contemplated by the dormitory committee...