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...meantime, what was not yet known as the media had enthusiastically taken up the science-fiction approach to the future. In 1910 an illustrator named Jean Marc Cote began a series of advertising cards depicting life in the year 2000: underwater croquet tournaments, men being shaved by robots, battery-powered roller skates. Later, Hugo Gernsback, who started out as a manufacturer of automotive batteries, launched the magazine Amazing Stories ("Extravagant Fiction Today--Cold Fact Tomorrow"). It was endlessly imitated. A typical series in Famous Fantastic Mysteries was titled Crimes of the Year 2000. The crimes were not especially novel...
OLYMPICS Second Olympics (summer), Paris 22 nations attended 1,319 men, 11 women (first one they came to) France won the most medals, 102 (29 gold) Some events: golf, cricket, croquet...
...Midnight Croquet became an official organization with UC funding last fall. Founder Rebecca Reider '00 deems the weekly croquet session a "Competitive but friendly gathering." Though recently participation has decreased because of the weather, some students opt for croquet over "ER." The strange name of the organization comes from Reider's past. "There's this park called Party Park near my house. One night, I saw this man setting up wickets. I used to watch him play by himself. One day, I thought he couldn't see me when I fell, and when I looked up he was there...
Chris Wang '99 feels somewhat less militant about croquet. "I think it's fine if they think it's snobby. It adds to the mystique of it being a snol y sport...
Despite the mystique of croquet, members say that Mr. J's has a decidedly laid-back atmosphere. But not everyone can be convinced. Early on in Mr. J's history, an on-looker left supposedly muttering, "Only at Harvard...