Word: squash
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...student whose time, taste, or abilities do not allow him to enter into either the major sports or the majority of minor sports has found in squash racquets a game exactly adapted to his needs. That participation therein should be hampered by inadequate facilities is a new condition, an unfortunate by-product of new popularity...
...Squash now holds an enthusiasm that has many marks of permanency. Among them, the fact that its growth is not local, but nation-wide, seems to lend credence to the belief that additional courts would not go unused. It would be agreeable if Harvard, with the solution of some of her other athletic problems already in sight, should be able to satisfy a young but lustily growing need...
Beginning Monday night the squash courts in the Freshman Gymnasium will be open until 9.30 o'clock, and the old system of signing up will be done away with from 6.30 o'clock on, provided that the courts are not congested at that time...
...Squash activities this week will be marked by the participation of only two of the University teams in the Massachusetts Squash Racquets Association tournament and an extension in the opportunities for students to play on the University squash courts. Team A will journey to Newton Center Club, and Team B will meet the Harvard Club on the University courts in Cambridge. Team C and the Freshman players having no contests with any outside opponents, will meet in a game on the University courts...
With the opening of the University squash courts in the evenings, a great increase in the number of squash players is shown, an average of 300 a week now using the courts after supper. Some time ago the old system of signing up for these courts was abandoned, and a new method was introduced by D. J. Kelly Assistant Director of Physical Education. The new way enables undergraduates to sign up in the morning for half of the courts, and the remaining half is saved for student who can sign up only in the afternoon. This will be of benefit...