Word: field
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dartmouth should capture 40 points for second honors, with Cornell third, only seven point behind. The Crimson runners are generally granted the superiority over their two rivals in the track events, but by how wide a margin it is difficult to conjecture. Cornell, as usual, is powerful in the field events; Dartmouth may be ranked a fairly close second; but the University is a poor third. The outcome of the clash would, therefore, seem to depend entirely on the final event on the schedule, the mile relay. The Crimson quartet's fast time of three minutes 28 4-5 seconds...
...Weak in Field Events...
Many private institutions have already taken the lead in this field and with the current discussion of state institutions, brought to a head by Little's resignation from the presidency of Michigan University, some action which will raise the entrance requirements of state universities is highly probable in the future. In any case it seems hardly fair to criticise the business man for taking a college degree as representing a standard of intelligence above the average. The question is more one which demands action from our educator more than from the general public...
Reports appearing in the Boston newspapers on Saturday stating that the old baseball cage on Soldiers Field would be destroyed were definitely spiked yesterday by W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics...
...stated that the construction of the new steel stands at the open end of the Stadium would probably necessitate the removal of the cage, but that it would under no circumstances be destroyed. He said that Harvard was in greater need of facilities for indoor sports than outdoor playing fields and that, because of this, the cage would be dismanteled and removed to another part of Soldiers Field. The cage was built in 1897 and is still in constant use in spite of the construction of the new Briggs cage...