Word: fields
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...time handicap cross-country race will be held on March 9, the same day as the Track Carnival. The course will cover about two miles, finishing somewhere near the track on Holmes Field...
...GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE. "The Topography and Geology of the Saratoga Battle-field and Vicinity." Professor Woodworth.--"A New Geological Map of the Middlesex Fells." Dr. G. R. Mansfield. Mineralogical Lecture Room...
Article IV of the Laws of Athletics was amended by adding thereto the following: "To the end that there be no unnecessary delay, each competitor shall take his trial or turn when called upon to do so by the field judge having charge of the contest, and if in the opinion of such field judge the competitor unreasonably delays to do so, such judge may at his discretion forfeit such trial and have the same tally against the competitor as one miss or failure...
...only be done by encouraging intercollegiate sport. As I emphatically disbelieve in seeing Harvard or any other college turn out mollycoddles instead of vigorous men, I may add that I do not in the least object to a sport because it is rough. Rowing, baseball, lacrosse, track and field games, hockey, football, are all of them good. Moreover, it is to my mind simple nonsense, a mere confession of weakness, to desire to abolish a game because tendencies show themselves, or practices grow up, which prove that the game ought to be reformed. Take football for instance. The preparatory schools...
Moreover, let the students remember that in the long run in the field of study judgment must be rendered upon the quantity of first-class work produced in the way of productive scholarship, and that no amount of second-class work can atone for failure in the college to produce this first-class work. A course of study is of little worth if it tends to deaden individual initiative and cramp scholars so that they only work in the ruts worn deep by many predecessors...