Word: touching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon the sleek motor of the Prince Regent purred forth, on its way to the Imperial Palace. Darting from the crowd, Hirayama tried to leap upon the running board and force his petition into Prince Hirohito's hand. Swift, a police sergeant seized him before he could touch the Imperial car. At the police station he said: "Had my mission been successful would have committed hara kiri immediately in atonement for disrespectfully approaching the Prince Regent...
With the arrival of the skating season, an informal hockey league has been organized. The teams will be run under the same system as the touch football league...
...Touch football is the only athletic activity that brings members of all departments of the University together. It is the best of the so-called intramural sports. Played in the open air and requiring fast, clever action, without the incessant running of soccer and lacrosse, or the personal contact of football, the new game offers an ideal exercise for the fall. The unusual amount of interest displayed by undergraduates this year insures a firm backing for the sport in the future...
...Touch football, so far as I have been able to find out, seems to have originated within the last five years at preparatory schools. Comparatively few men in the graduate schools seem to be familiar with the game, whereas all the undergraduate students seem to know it. Next season, when the graduate departments enter more teams, the original league will undoubtedly have to be divided into several others...
...Sulloway '05, President of the New England Federation of Harvard Clubs, will preside over the meeting. The purpose of the meting is to keep the Harvard Alumni of New England in close touch with affairs at the University. The informal talks by prominent undergraduates will lend the desired intimate contact...