Word: larger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the stadium was built in 1903 it was considered capacious enough to hold a crowd at any Harvard Yale grid-iron battle. In recent years, however, with the annual game coming more into prominence, the ever-growing size of the University and its alumni body, and the resultant larger crowds, a remedy became necessary. The annual erection of wooden stands at a comparatively low cost seemed to have solved the problem. With the completion and occupancy of the Business School buildings in the fall of 1926, the Boston Building Commissioner decided that the wooden stands constituted a fire menace...
...Playwright. Eugene Gladstone O'Neill is the son of actor James O'Neill, famed across the U. S. in earlier days as Monte Cristo. With his trouping father and a devoted mother, not an actress, he spent staccato years in larger cities where James O'Neill was acting. After that, school days under Catholic and later conventional preparatory schoolmasters. Then a year at Princeton, whence he was fired for a "prank." Then an inordinate mixture of oddities. He worked in a mail order firm in Manhattan; went gold prospecting to Honduras; shipped as a common sailor to South American ports...
...body, and that the graduates are therefore entitled to consideration; that we are lacking in generosity not only to our own graduates but to those of Yale in providing them with fewer seats for the Cambridge games than the Yale authorities provide our graduates for Bowl games; that a larger Stadium would not attract a larger "public" crowd; and finally that the cost of enlarging the Stadium could easily be paid for out of the excess profits within a period of ten years without in any way changing the present "athletics-for-all" policy...
...active use more than a Stadium which would be filled at most twice a year; that the present Stadium, architecturally, is unrivalled, and that the proposed enlargement would make it a monstrosity, also unrivalled; that intercollegiate football is primarily for the undergraduates, not for the graduates; and that larger stadia place the emphasis on bigger and better athletics and so overshadow the main and essential function of a college education...
Despite all this, however, there is no denying that there are many who, reason or no reason, do not like the idea of a larger Stadium. Even those who must confess that the claims of the Athletic Association are just, somehow wish that it might be otherwise. It is to this class that the CRIMSON belongs. Figures, charts, statistics, the practical is undoubtedly on the side of those desiring an enlarged Stadium. Sentiment, tradition, perhaps even a sort of foolish idealism seems no less certainly on the side of those opposing the proposed change...