Word: fields
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yesterday afternoon at the hearing of the Beck Hall Trust before the Board of Appeals, E. S. Emery '87, Assistant Comptroller of the University, field a formal objection to the erection of the projected ten story apartment building planned by the Trust. This opposition from Harvard puts an entirely new aspect upon the proposed improvement of the Beck Hall property...
...annual University tennis tournament will get under way this fall when competitors for the singles crowns in classes A and B meet on the courts of Jarvis Field and the Divinity School tomorrow afternoon. The doubles play will open for all students in the University early next week...
...removal of the Harvard polo practise fields from Dedham, Hamilton and Forbes Field to the class football field beyond the Business School is one of those improvements in the University's athletic plans which have been long delayed by mechanical difficulties. Outside the military science units on Soldiers Field has long stood the polo practise cage, its purpose conjectual only to the imaginative. The scarred and single symbol that polo is played at Harvard, it has been also the symbol, like the graduate student who swam the Charles in March, of an inadequacy...
...field is not of regulation size and it will still be necessary for Freshman and University teams to play their scheduled games elsewhere. But the handful of undergraduates who have soon the University's riders in action should find their numbers increased, if the large attendance at the Harvard Yale polo games of last year be any index. Polo as a spectator's game is in the curious position of being over advertised by the clothiers of the smart set publications, and under appreciated or oftener unknown among those who find much of real beauty in other sports...
...wonder why my connections with field athletics would bring to my mind the subject of politeness, so I'll explain how this idea came to me. The men of Harvard are the cause of it. They are the most courteous and polite set of men I have ever met on an athletic field. It seems to be traditional with them to be gracious even when in the heat of competition, to accede whenever possible to the wishes of an opponent. I am referring here to their field men, their shotput, discus, hammer and javelin men, who, both in physique...