Word: pong
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ping pong team practices, held Wednesday nights at Currier House, are now the only opportunity people have to play pong at Harvard. But beginners "feel out of place" at team practices, Maskin says, because Harvard's best players are present...
This year, for the first time in the team's existence, the department gave it some financial backing--$100 for the purchase of two tournament-quality ping pong tables--an amount matched by the master and House committee of Currier House, where the tables are located...
Relief may be on the way, however, for the ping pong team and other club teams. Floyd S. Wilson, director of intramural athletics and recreation, in a meeting Monday night told representatives of the clubs that next year they will be able to get some funds to pay for equipment and travel expenses, although the teams will still be basically self-supporting...
Even if the ping pong team can get more money, its problems would not be solved. Because there are only two tables available on which the team can practice, team members do not get much chance to practice and others interested in playing cannot get table time...
This table shortage makes it difficult to "spread ping pong around," which Maskin sees as the purpose of the team. To this end "the loss of lessons has really hurt," he added...