Word: gustavus
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...celebrated its fiftieth annual Track and Field meeting on Soldiers Field in Cambridge last May and is the oldest college sport body today. Its members number 40 colleges and are representative of all parts of the country. Under the leadership of Gustavus T. Kirby, Chairman of the Advisory Committee, this association has worked closely with the International Athletic Federation and has become the leader in the United States in the matter of rules of competition. It is not merely an advisory body but an administrative one to which all the larger eastern colleges and such western and middle western institutions...
...Gustavus Adolphus, Crown Prince of Sweden, and the Princess, his wife, will arrive in Boston Saturday morning and at 11 o'clock will motor to Cambridge for a two hour visit at the University. On his arrival he will be greeted at a reception to be given for him by President Lowell in the Faculty Room of University Hall. Following this gathering the royal visitor will pay shorts visits to the Stadium and the Freshman Halls and then will proceed to the Longfellow house on Brattle street where another reception will be held for him by the daughter...
Yesterday Prince Gustavus Adolphus left New York for his first visit to Yale University in New Haven. The royal party arrived on Mr. J. P. Morgan's yacht Corsair, and were entertained by President and Mrs. Angell at tea prior to a tour of the university including a trip to the Yale Field where the Prince was introduced to the members of the Yale baseball team. At 8.30 o'clock last night a special convocation was held, the fourth in the history of Yale University, and President Angell conferred an honorary degree of doctor of laws on the Swedish Crown...
Before arriving at the University' Saturday morning. Prince Gustavus Adolphus will make a short tour of inspection at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On his return to Boston in the afternoon he will be shown the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and later will be conducted to the Somerset Country Club for a view of the races. Late in the same afternoon he will leave Boston by yacht for Pride's Crossing, where he will spend the night...
...Gustavus R Kirby, the man who as president of every athletic body in America has played such a large part in the recent history of track and field competition in this country, was the principal speaker of the evening. E. O. Stimson, the Dartmouth speeder who won the mile and the three-mile, one after the other, in 1876, told of the time when the Orange and Black team from Princeton carried away the first Intercollegiate title from Saratoga. He was followed by Dr. Graeme M. Hammond of Columbia, the iron man of American running. Although he did not figure...