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...miles of seats and cost $1,700,000. A lover of the grandiloquent, the ceremonious. Baron de Coubertin would have been charmed by the gay, prodigious pageant of band-music, homing-pigeons, hymns, flags, oaths, Vice President Curtis and 2,000 athletes in bright uniforms with which the Xth Olympiad last week began...
...Harvard, Yale, and Princeton Clubs of Southern California have combined for a triangular meeting at the Uplifters Club, Santa Monlea, on the afternoon of August 13, during the Olympiad this summer; members of the Olympic and football teams coming from the three above named universities will be guests...
...Tenth Modern Olympiad, in Los Angeles, July 30 to Aug. 14. Olympic officials in the U. S. last week reiterated their intention of choosing the U. S. teams by trial competitions rather than, as was suggested, on their records in recent events. In Berlin, the International Amateur Athletic Federation voted to suspend famed Paavo Nurmi, pending an investigation of charges that he had become a professional...
...stadium. New York's Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt made a speech: "It is an evidence of the age of our modern civilization that the Olympics date back nearly 2,800 years. ... I hereby proclaim open the third Olympic winter games celebrating the tenth Olympiad of the modern era." Greek athletes, before their Olympic games, swore to compete fairly and to the best of their abilities. Modern Olympic athletes also have an oath, to recite which the U. S. committee selected Jack Shea, 21-year-old Dartmouth sophomore, speedskater and son of a Lake Placid butcher. While the other athletes...
...Cunningham '32, will be allowed to accept the invitations from the directors of the American Olympic hockey squad to train for Olympic play at Lake Placid, the Crimson sextet will face two teams entered for the famous tourney, in games which will have no connection with the Olympiad...