Word: squashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Intramural lacrosse will be organized early in December, and a squash tournament will begin on Monday, December 11. Swimming and basketball will be started on Tuesday, December 12, and interhouse relays will be run on Tuesday, December 19 and Wednesday, December 20. Indoor baseball, an addition to the winter athletic program, will begin after Christmas, while boxing, wrestling, and fencing will also be organized at a later date...
...Squash courts in Leverett House caused a great deal of unexpected trouble when it was found that the wood backing the rear walls of two of the courts is improperly cured, and has caused the timbers to swell and buckle. The back frame is made of square timbers of about three inches in thickness, set up vertically and horizontally about nine inches apart. On swelling, the horizontal tim- bers forced the vertical ones out, caused the whole wall to buckle, and become unfit for play, and necessitated a complete rebuilding of the wall by the University Maintenance Department. Investigation reveals...
Among the foods which have been purchased are 190 pounds of turkey, 230 pounds of other meats, 280 pounds of apples, 289 pounds of sweet potatoes, 96 plum puddings, 230 pounds of onions, and 230 pounds of squash. Any students with cars who are willing to help deliver these dinners should see Miss Hamilton at Phillips Brooks House today...
...President & advisers was disconcerting. Worst of all, from the standpoint of an inflating President, the dollar's commodity value, as revealed by the Department of Labor's wholesale price index, was way up at $1.42, a rise of 1½? from the week before. To squash the dollar down toward the 1926 commodity value of 100?, President Roosevelt called in his ten-man monetary team. They decided, without much real knowledge of how soon it would affect the dollar's commodity value, to wrestle the gold dollar out in the world arena...
Starting today, also, as many squash courts as the Freshmen may wish to use will be reserved on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. There will be no Freshman squash on the other days. Handball can be played at Hemenway, and fall rowing will start about the end of November. Track will continue throughout the year...