Word: fielded
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Though these plans, therefore, are not yet wholly completed, there is no doubt that in the course of two or three years this part of the Charles valley will be so far improved by the laying out of roads and by other work of the Park Commission that Soldiers Field will become a most attractive base for the athletic interests of the university...
...game was marked by steady playing on both sides. with but little brilliant playing, but many exciting moments. A very large crowd was present, every seat being filled and a large crowd in centre and right field. The cheering was the best that has been heard on Holmes Field for years, and showed thorough enthusiasm throughout...
...Soldiers Field came into the possession of the university in June, 1890, as a gift from Major Henry Lee Higginson of the Class or '55. It came at an especially opportune time, as the athletic accommodations of the university on Holmes and Jarvis Fields had been growing inadequate for some years past, and there was, moreover, no room for further expansion in their neighborhood. Its location was also peculiarly satisfactory, on account of its adjacency to the Longfellow estate of nearly eighty acres, which had been left to the university some time before, but had not been utilized, on account...
...consisted of about twenty acres of land, all on a higher level than the neighboring marsh land. It was given to the university with the hope expressed that it might be used for the present for athletic purposes, but without any reservation whatsoever, except it should be called Soldiers Field, in memory of Major Higginson's comrades in the late...
...June 10, 1890, Major Higginson formally presented Soldiers Field to the university at a meeting held in Sewall and attended almost entirely by students. Major Higginson's letter, in which he stated the purpose of his gift, was read by President Eliot, and the donor himself was then introduced. Then followed the memorable and impressive address which has since become so widely known, in memory of his comrades who had died in the war and in whose honor the field was named. These men, whose names are now inscribed on the Soldiers Field monument, were: James Savage, Jr. '54, Charles...