Word: fields
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Soldiers Field was given to the University in 1890 by Major Henry Lee Higginson '55 in commemoration of the soldiers of the University who lost their lives in the Civil War. Major Higginson suggested that it be used as a playground to take the place of Holmes Field which had become inadequate on account of the increased number of students using...
...original field consisted of about 20 acres lying on the Charles River Parkway and North Harvard street, the land which is now in use. Since 1898 the Longfellow Marsh, which is the unreclaimed land to the west of the Stadium has been acquired and enclosed to form part of Soldiers Field. In 1903, before deciding definitely on the location of the Stadium, the Athletic Committee purchased two pieces of property, amounting in all to about two acres, on the south side of the field. This gave the field a square shape entirely surrounded by streets and public reservations, but with...
...University association football team will play its first league game of the season with Columbia on South Field, New York, this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The sudden changes in the line-up on account of the rule forbidding men to participate in athletic contests in more than two seasons, materially lesson the chances of the University team. Columbia has, moreover, a stronger team than last year and has already defeated Cornell 9 to 0, and Yale...
...expedition will proceed from New York to Rio Janeiro and will remain in Brazil until the rainy season comes on in October. The Brazilian government, through the government survey, has offered facilities for prosecution of the work of the expedition. On the completion of the field work Professor Woodworth will proceed via Buenos Ayres to the coast of Chill for the purpose of investigating shore line changes, leaving Valparaiso in time to reach Cambridge at the end of the leave of absence...
...Peirce '08 won the handicap hammer throw competition held on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon, with an actual throw of 120 feet, 10 inches. E. H. Ruch '10 was second with an actual throw of 107 feet, 2 inches, and C. J. Nourse '09, was third with 84 feet...