Word: squash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grenville T. Emmet, of 9 Hilliard St., Cambridge, has been elected captain of this year's freshman squash team. He is currently the number one singles player on the team, which has yet to lose a match...
Dixon was determined to see that the sudden need for expenses should never arise again, and consequently, in 1951 gave $5000 for the establishment of the W. Palmer Dixon Squash Fund. Income from the Fund totals over 250 dollars per year, and at the present time serves as a broad financial base for an organization known as The Friends of Harvard Squash and Tennis...
This group is made up of Harvard graduates who played squash or tennis while undergraduates. Each year Barnaby mails out newsletters to all these men, giving information about the teams and players and asking if they would care to contribute to the support of these squads. A man may earmark his gift for either squash or tennis and also specify whether or not the money is for immediate use or to be used to augment a permanent, interest-gathering squash or tennis fund...
...Palmer Dixon Squash Fund put the permanent squash fund on a firm footing, and in 1956, seeing the need for a similar gift to aid tennis, Dixon established the W. Palmer Dixon Tennis Fund...
These two funds, in conjunction with the Friends of Harvard Squash and Tennis, enable the squash team to travel to the Nationals each year and permit the tennis team to make its annual spring tour to play southern colleges. It may also be used for special events, such as the Oxford-Cambridge vs. Yale-Harvard tennis meet, which is held in England every four years, or for individual needs which may arise from time to time...