Word: fields
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...more men taking part in athletics the need for larger facilities will be felt more and more. Better athletic equipment for the University, including a modern and adequate gymnasium, with a large swimming pool an indoor track, new locker and shower rooms under the Stadium, and improvements on Soldiers Field, are legitimate ways to spend any amount of surplus from gate receipts. Outsiders are only too glad to pay to see College athletics, and it is only right that they should. This seems to me a legitimate way for the University to get financial aid for fostering general athletics...
...winter track carnival, held Saturday afternoon in the Gymnasium and on Holmes Field, was very successful. All the events were closely contested and were followed by a large number of spectators. Cups were awarded in all events to those who won first places and to those who won second places in the cross-country run and in the dormitory relay races. W. M. Rand '09 did the best individual work by winning first places in the three-legged race, the sack race, and the handicap 45-yard hurdle race. B. T. Stephenson '08 won a first, two second...
...dormitory relay races on Holmes Field, in which six men ran on a team, each for a distance of 260 yards, were the most exciting and closely contested events of the afternoon. Claverly, Dunster street, Hollis-Stoughton, Holyoke street, Matthews, Miscellaneous A, and Randolph, all won their races, but Holyoke street, Westmorly and Matthews made the best time and so competed together in the finals, which were won by Holyoke street in the fast time of 3 minutes, 11 3-5 seconds. Westmorly had the lead at the beginning of the last lap, but E. K. Merrihew '10 succeeded...
...winter track carnival will begin this afternoon at 2 o'clock. All the events will be held in the Gymnasium, except the hurdle races and the dormitory relay races, which will be held on Holmes Field; also the cross-country race. There are about 400 entries in the carnival...
...Field Judges--H. C. Bodman '09, K. G. Carpenter '08, J. R. Coolidge '08, P. E. Dutcher '08, R. W. Fernald '07, D. Rosenblum...