Word: outdoor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual convention of the I. C. A. A. A. A. held in New York on Saturday, it was announced that the 1928 outdoor championship meet will take place at the University. This is in accordance with the regular custom of alternating the event between Cambridge and Philadelphia: Last spring's meet was held at Franklin Field...
...Dartmouth, and Princeton were invited, but could not attend because of examinations. This year, however, Princeton will be present and promises real singles opposition in the person of Van Ryn, a member of the Davis Cup squad last year, and a strong doubles combination in Van Ryn and Appel, outdoor Intercollegiate titleholders. Yale and Williams are both strong, and as Coach Cowles remarked last night, "Harvard will have a hard battle to retain the title. But with Hill and Ingraham in the singles, and Whitbeck and Ward for doubles, Harvard ought to keep the trophy...
...hack-writers who produce "true stories" and "confessions" were told by their employers to "lay off the sex stuff." This applied chiefly to seductions and attempted seductions. A cleaner substitute was wanted, partly because of fear of censorship, but essentially because public taste was changing. Heart throbs, steadfast virtue, outdoor heroes, wholesome homes, human interest stories were selling like hotdogs at a horse race. They became the order...
Committee, under Otto Hermann Kahn, has elaborate plans. There will be: 1) an international composer's contest extending throughout this spring, with prizes of $20,000 to be awarded by the Columbia Phonograph Co.; 2) outdoor singing festivals during the spring and summer, in which choruses the country over will participate; 3) special Schubert concerts in the autumn at which there will be performed cycles of his chamber music, his piano music, his symphonies, and the possible first U. S. performance of a Schubert opera; 4) special commemoration programs to be given on Nov. 19, the anniversary...
Unable to offer as good opposition in this event as in most others, America will probably depend on Lermond of the Boston Athletic Association and a team selected from Cox of Pennsylvania State College, the intercollegiate cross-country indoor and outdoor mile champion, Booth of the Newark Athletic Club, former intercollegiate cross-country title holder, Payne of the University of Pennsylvania, and Kirby of the New York Athletic Club, M. L. Smith of Yale and J. L. Reid '29, Harvard cross-country captain, are other possible starters...