Word: outdoor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...summer from August 1 to August 31 at Camp Devens, Massachusetts, and at Fort Adams, Rhode Island. The object of these camps is to bring together men of high type from all sections of the country on a common basis of equality and under the most favorable conditions of outdoor life; to stimulate and promote citizenship, patriotism, and Americanism; and, through expert physical direction, athletic coaching, and military training, to benefit the men individually, and bring them to a greater realization of their obligations to their country...
...tennis match yesterday with the Business School, which the University won 6 to 2, revealed a strong, well-balanced team and augered for a successful future. Although it must be admitted that the Business School Players showed a distinct lack of outdoor practice, no qualification can be made to the statement that each College player displayed great ability and an excellent knowledge of the games...
...most sanquine Crimson enthusiasts realize that the University nine faces a hard proposition this afternoon and tomorrow, when Georgia University takes possession of the visitors' bench on Soldiers Field. The southerners have been playing outdoor baseball ever since the Crimson started in the cage and they have already played an even dozen games. The game will begin at 4 o'clock...
...forlorn Delta. Harvard has no familiar animal, such as might readily be suggested at other places, to place upon a pedestal. And suitable statuary--or indeed any kind of statuary--is rare about the University. The Discobolus in front of the Hemenway gymposium and John Harvard comprise the whole outdoor contingent. There would undoubtedly be insuperable obstacles but some patriot might reasonably drag forth one of the excellent figures in the Germanic Museum--which seems never to be visited--and place it on the former site of John Harvard. Probably it would dissolve in the next spring shower; but something...
...President called the people's attention to outdoor life. Said he: "Life in the open is a great character builder. From such life much of the American spirit of freedom springs. Furthering the opportunities of all for such life ranks in the general class with education...