Word: field
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Athletic Director Jack Reardon met the bus in front of Blodgett Pool to begin a tour of the Soldiers Field facilities. We had just come from Agassiz Theater in Radcliffe Yard, where the committee had heard a group of student actors sing selections from a Gilbert & Sullivan show. The need for increased funding for the arts (i.e., the "pitch") preceded the entertainment...
...passed by Soldiers Field on the bus ride back to the Yard, Reardon told the sad tale of how the oldest concrete stadium in the country is in danger of being condemned. An architectural engineering study has revealed weaknesses in its support system, and funds will have to be raised to prevent its decay and demise. Reardon told the committee that "parts of Baker Field at Columbia have been condemned, and it's very embarrassing to a school (not to mention its athletic director) to have it happen...
Slowly but surely it seems that we are watching the return of Harvard sports. The new facilities give Harvard the physical base to lure the top-echelon high school student-athlete in swimming, hockey, track and field, and (if one considers the amazing training and medical equipment on hand in renovated Dillon Field House) football. Basketball and other sports may not be far behind. How will the Faculty respond to this projected growth in athletics? Will it be supportive or, as in the 1950s, will it rebel and lower funds and emphasis...
...biggest triumph came earlier this month at Newmarket, England, in the race known as the 2,000 Guineas, the first in the English version of the Triple Crown. He urged Tap on Wood from the middle of the field to win by a head. It was a brilliant ride aboard a 20-to-1 shot, and left Cauthen exultant: "I was thrilled, as thrilled as if I'd won the Kentucky Derby...
Paced like a playoff, Chase the Game derives much of its immediacy from the life and language of men coming to painful maturity. Its power comes from the Ditter conclusion that skill on the playing field is not synonymous with character. There have been scores of books on the superstars of every sport; success Breeds fans. Failure has only a few aficionados, and Jordan is one of the finest. In Auden's phrase, he sings of human unsuccess, and in the song turns case his tories on the defeated into a kind of triumph...