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Though in pin-ball circles the great names are unquestionably Leigh, Ruml and Ryan, Colonel Morton Smith, Adjutant of the military R.O.T.C., was recently seen in Dirty Mary's beating the socks off Captain Andrew Marshall in a pin-ball game that enthused onlooking Colonel Francis A. Doniat, professor of Military Science and Tactics, to such an extent that he nearly jarred the machine into a tilt...
...Pin-Balling Good for War Nerves...
While the triumvirate members do take a few subjects this year, they spend most of their time in a special course which they call Pin-Ball 101, which relieves them of war-hysteria...
Furthermore, Ryan maintains, a pinballer can develop a lot of coordination, unless he ruins his efficiency by the old stable vice of weaving, where he tries to guide the rolling pin-ball with his hips...
Many subtle and effective types of ballpinners have been developed around the Square, a great many of whom, according to Ryan, get their abilities from old Harvard pin-ball immortals, Irving Soden '39 and Richard Harris '42. Ryan describes them in classes of "pushers," "thumpers," and "smashers," who play pin-ball in the manner which their name suggests...