Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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None of the players on the University R. O. T. C. polo squad have had any previous experience with the exception of H. S. Clark 2E.S., who played on the offense at Norwich, but who is ineligible to compete in the team's matches. The team's skill with the mallet has been derived entirely from practice games since the first of April...
...Government in the Officers' Training Corps units at the universities. Ordinarily, polo is too expensive a pastime for any but millionaires and army officers. But with horses and expert instruction furnished by a fostering War Department, the members at colleges with mounted units have been eager to try their skill...
...hardly necessary for its continued success. At the same time, it should be remembered that the Government is not supporting polo ponies all over the country to make a Roman holiday for the colleges. The object is to stimulate riding in the Training Corps units; to develop athletic skill in the future officers, to teach team-work and coordination,-in fact, to accomplish what sports are everywhere intended to accomplish. Championship teams are very gratifying,-but they are incidental to the work of giving the entire units proficiency in horsemanship which cannot be obtained by riding in a straight...
...opportunity to thump the University crew and the coach. . You said "the Freshmen would naturally be the easiest opponents the crew will meet this year". But Freshman crews have been known to break intercollegiate records; and if you have any doubts as to the unusual power and skill of this Freshman crew, I must suppose that you did not even see the race. Because the Freshmen defeated the University you cried "Something is obviously wrong,"--while like most poor critics you did not volunteer a reason nor one definite correction...
...Amir is 30 years old; he succeeded his father, who was assassinated on February 20, 1919. The court is resident at Kabul, the capital of Afganistan. The Government is absolutely responsible to the Amir, hereditary prince, whose power varies in ratio to his skill, character and good fortune...