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all or use fumblingly if one is totally unacquainted with the sports that spawn them. Everyone should know as many games as possible and should play at least some. Parents should throw as many sports in their children's way as they can, not that they may shine in them, but that they may get the feel and terminology. Students should try to understand the various sports on the campus. A girl who has doubts about a "forward pass" is much more to be pitied for it than if she confuses an hypotenuse with the mighty-nosed Nile mammal. To pass as a true Englishman, it is more important for an Oxfordian to know cricket than Greek. For an American to be admitted into the social register, some knowledge of the mashies and niblicks of golf, the slices and hooks, is virtually a sine qua non! |
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