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Exponent of the penholder grip and possessor of the fastest forehead in University table tennis, Jack I. Levin '40 won the Ping Pong championship yesterday at Barry Cowle's shop. Levin downed Pong stylist William W. Maish '40 in a bruising encounter which lasted over an hour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Table Tennis Championship Uncovers Two Yardlings of Outstanding Ability | 5/7/1937 | See Source »

Playing steadily and retrieving everything with dogged determination, Maish built up a lead of 11-2 in the final set. Here the fickle fortune of Pong turned in favor of Levin, whose wicked drives started clipping the edges of the table in unreturnable fashion. The final score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Table Tennis Championship Uncovers Two Yardlings of Outstanding Ability | 5/7/1937 | See Source »

...small size of the clubs makes inter-club football impracticable but touch football is well organized, a complete pamphlet of special tough rules for the association being published by the governing board. During the winter basketball, squash, and ping pong are carried on while inter-club hockey in the Hobey Baker rink has proved to be the most popular. Swimming is limited to three meets in both the club and dormitory league in which all members enter contestants at once, while in Wrestling and Boxing there is an open University meet as at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Intramurals Are Found Better Organized, More Spirited Than Houses | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...those members of the Class of 1940 who reluctantly leave the fine pool room in the Union, Winthrop presents an appeal in the form of a game room, which in addition to the inevitable ping-pong table, boasts a pool table (one, count 'em, one.) It is true, that the present cues are in various states of degeneration, but there is a movement on foot to replace these with new ones, and when the time comes for the members of the Class of '40 to descend upon the Houses, this department ought to be in ship shape...

Author: By Chester A. Macarthur, CHAIRMAN, WINTHROP HOUSE COMMITTEE | Title: Winthrop Described for Prospective House Inhabitants in Fifth Special Article On Different Dormitory Blessings | 3/23/1937 | See Source »

...trite enumeration of other physical assets would doubtless be boring, since all men know that all Houses are adequately equipped. In later articles in this series, the reader may assume that when such things as superior squash courts, libraries, ping pong tables, common rooms, and the like are mentioned, such matters are taken for granted at Dunster...

Author: By C. COLMERY Gibson, CHAIRMAN, DUNSTER HOUSE COMMITTEE | Title: Second Article for Freshmen Stresses Dunster's Nearness to Smith, Wellesley | 3/19/1937 | See Source »

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