Word: fields
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With prospects of having one of the best Freshman teams for several years, the 1932 track squad will journey to Andover on Saturday where it will open its season with a meet in the indoor baseball cage at the Phillips Academy. Five running and four field events will be included in this initial meet, which will give the Freshmen their first outside competition since entering the University...
...opportunity for the student to organize and express what he has learned of a whole subject in three full years of study and reflection. In the freedom of extended time the less ambitious will find an advantage and the capable undergraduate will more nearly approach an understanding of his field sufficient for him to attempt a small specialized job in the form of a thesis in his final year. From a hurdle for the honors men the divisional becomes the natural consummation of a college career to which none should look forward with trepidation...
Following the ultimatum issued by the Building Commissioners, the Athletic authorities of the University studied the problem, and decided that if any permanent improvements were to be made at Soldiers Field, the Stadium should at that time be enlarged to seat 80,000 persons. The Athletic Committee so recommended to the Harvard Corporation at that time, but the members of that body voted down any proposal to materially increase the seating capacity of the stadium...
Work in erecting the new stands will not begin until after the Oxford-Cambridge-Harvard-Yale track meet on Soldiers Field in July. It is expected that the steel girders and other materials used in the construction of the stands, will be factory-made and that the putting together of the individual parts will not occupy much time. Should an earlier start be necessary, however, Mr. Bingham feels that it can be undertaken without interfering with the track meet...
...which the track straightaway will run. Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch and Abbott, the University architects, will draw the plans for the new stands which will accommodate about the same number as the old wooden structure. Though no exact figures are available as to the cost of this improvement on Soldiers Field, it is understood that the sum will be in the vicinity of $175,000. When completed, the stands will be left in position permanently, or until such a time as a radical change in the Harvard football seating arrangements are made...