Word: croquet
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When winning is at stake. We play bocce, croquet. You can't believe how serious a wonderful lawn game can become when you play it with the Wilson brothers...
Yelp's founders aren't in a hurry. To build team spirit, they spent last Thursday with the staff--playing croquet, followed by a cable-car ride and a nocturnal pub crawl--happy to bide their time...
...asked the bartender for the beer. We sat for a buffet lunch. Two club members populated our table. More conversation about the weather. I stared downward as I nursed the prime rib. And after lunch, we changed clothes for tackle football on the lawn, or, if you preferred, croquet. I wandered over to the creek and wondered which direction it was flowing...
...first White House Easter Egg Roll was held in 1878, and near the turn of the century events included "egg croquet." This year attractions will include children's book authors, magicians and strolling characters that include Curious George, the Cookie Monster and Clifford the Big Red Dog. Children age seven and under can actually roll eggs, and all family members are welcome to live music and live stage shows...
Student groups should also make an effort to get their advisers to interact not only with the organization’s leaders, but also with its members. For example, The Harvard Salient adviser Professor Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 recently went on a croquet outing with the staff: “I stayed until I was just overcome with pleasure,” Mansfield told Fifteen Minutes. This kind of interaction, free from the strictures of grades and assignments, could be a far more rewarding model of student-faculty interaction, especially if supplemented by an educational component...