Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Winthrop's co-ed touch football team, Harvard's best, beat Trumble, 36-30, while Lowell House and Calhoun College were tied 12-12 in the same sport...
...bladderball game, for example. This is a form of sport in which three or four thousand Yalies lock themselves inside the Old Campus with a huge canvas ball. There appears to be no object to it except to immerse oneself in a surging tide of flesh, heaving violently in one direction after another in pursuit of the ball. The specter of academic pressure seems to preside over this activity, as it does over every activity at Yale. Last year the bladderball was removed to Kingman Brewster's lawn and, while the president of Yale stood on his porch, drink...
...first bodacious attempt to out-Neiman Marcus, Sakowitz last year offered a pricey choice of lessons from top pros in just about every sport or hobby the loved one might care to cultivate. But such instructional experiences as a day's guitar lessons with Jose Feliciano ($14,500) found no takers. Obviously the price was too low or the gift too evanescent, so this year's catalogue is more hardware-oriented. A French "wine château," for example, is going begging for $875,000. Another tempting bauble is a 63-acre Caribbean island 25 miles south...
...card-carrying faithful created an oversize portrait of Chairman Mao, a blockbuster mural of Chinese industrial development and pictorial tributes to China's performing arts, medical services (including a flash-card diagram showing acupuncture of an ear) and table tennis, the nation's No. 1 sport. After the mass-performance art, the games could have seemed anticlimactic. But since China is making a concerted bid to participate in next summer's Olympics in Montreal, the National Games became unofficial Olympic trials. At least three world marks for pistol shooting were set. Not to mention standards for flash...
Dartmouth kept its title hopes alive with its triumph over Columbia. The Big Green sport a 3-2 Ivy and a 4-6 overall record. The Lions are now 1-4 in league competition and 3-8 overall...