University of the Incarnate Word - Logos Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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14442254; This very ancient and honorable sport continues to thrive in the de- voted play of its numerous exponents among the students. It is claimed by some observers that the faithful devotee of archery bears the signs of its more delicate compensations in distinctively graceful attitudes and gestures. Even to the uncritical mind it is evident that an exercise of such manifestly subtle requirements cannot fail of its adequate rewards for practice. No other skill in games can surpass it for its demands that the aspirant must master poise. The bodily grace Which is thus effected is the apt accompaniment of mental poise. It is not unlikely that the student ttbowmanti has this aim, too, in mind when she aims so studiously at the target. Though this thought about archery be no more than interesting speculation, the fact remains that archery thrives.

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Sportsmen of this age of speed, delight in the dazzling activity of badminton. The game is even faster than tennis. T0 hit the shuttlecock with the racket in such a way that it will fly over the net requires constant, rapid and sure movement. Its venerable ancestor is the game of battledore and shuttlecock. This pastime served as a diversion for all classes from its invention in the fourteenth century. The cock was a cork into which feathers were stuck; the battledore resembled a tennis racket. Students at the college who showed special ability in the sport include Marguerite Gaines, Mary Frances Jackson, Adele House, Marian Seng, J ean Fitzgerald, Martha Franza and Margaret Pickering.

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It may be that to the gregarious golfer, the game is, as Paul Gallico writes, 9a mystery, as much of a one as the universe and the solar system, electricity, or ionic affinities. To the I. W. C. students, severally and unitedly, Who play it, this description of the sport does not apply. They play it as a form of delightful recreation and for the learning of socialness whereof it provides a happy opportunity. The greater number of those WhO play are perhaps among the grouping that is slangily identified as composed of dubs? It may be: but they are genuine amateurs, true lovers of the sport, players Who play for love of the exercise. Let it not be for- gotten, however, that there were experts among them, and among the leaders at least one of eminently distinguished skill. It was Susanne 111. Of the company that teed off regularly on the near-by greens, during this year of 1939-1940, were Barbara Partridge, Margaret Adams, J essie Kinsley, Loretta Yaeger, Yvonne Robertson, and Suzanne Ill.