Word: squashings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are also Faculty members who take a less rigorous approach to sports. Karl E. Case, head tutor in Economics, expressed an interest in squash and tennis along with "shooting pool and ping-pong." When queried as to whether release of tension was a motive for his athletic interests, Case replied, "No--to relieve tension, I drink...
...writing here to extol the virtues of the game of handball and to decry the disturbing trend in this University of late to supplant it with its inferior cousin. We speak of squash, that bastard child of tennis and handball...
...meant people to play squash, they would have been born with racquets instead of hands. As it is, on the byways and boulevards of this nation, wherever the architects of our modern fortune have seen fit to erect a concrete testimonial to American sturdiness and perseverance, citizens congregate to blast resilient balls off the wall. Except at this College...
Harvard is in many ways the ultimate separation of people from the exigencies of life, and the game of squash is a metaphor for that dissociation. No longer, in squash, does the actual hand impel the ball on its tortuous journey; instead, a foot and a half of laminated wood and the entrails of cats enforces a dainty separation between motive force and object...
...pioneers who built our nation did not play the game of squash. There were no squash racquets in the first harsh winters at Plymouth. At Shiloh and Chicamauga, at Gettysburg and Manassas, the game of squash was not played. Its province was the bastions of hereditary aristocracy and privilege in Europe and the Occident...