Word: outdoor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stage) will lead the company. Eye-gouging, vitriol-throwing and premature burial are some the jovial themes employed in previous Grand Guignol productions. R. U. R. is opening in London shortly. A robot with a genuinely English accent should be the height of something or other-ingenuity, perhaps. The outdoor show business at Coney Island is almost in full swing. Hot dogs sizzle along the boardwalk-barkers bark-"the only genuine saltwater taffy" clogs conversation everywhere. The most popular new attraction at present at Coney is said to be a ride-The Caterpillar operated by the owners of "The House...
...Great Hills as the guests of Mr. H. R. Hardwick '15, former University football star, where they will stay over the week-end, returning to Cambridge late Sunday night. The players will spend the greater part of their time on the golf links and in other forms of outdoor exercise, in order to be in the best possible condition for the contest with Williams on Monday...
...organized athletics, and to make men take part in games which are enjoyable and can be played in after life. This is a wise policy; the college performs a useful service if it develops in men a liking for games they can play as they grow older, and for outdoor activity generally. Except for the comparatively small number of men who need some special sort of physical building up, none of the wearisome gymnasium exercise with chest weights and other apparatus which naturally come to mind with the phrase "compulsory exercise" are required...
...Corporation has recently voted, on the recommendation of the Athletic Committee, that the committee should take over and operate, through the agency of the Athletic Association, the general facilities for indoor as well as outdoor sport. This decision is commendable. It means that all organized sports and athletics, and buildings used for them, will be under the jurisdiction of the Athletic Committee and maintained by it. This should effect a saving of something like $20,000 a year to the University, which has hitherto maintained out of other funds such buildings as the Hemenway Gymnasium and the University Squash Courts...
...harder to tell how great the increase in outdoor sports has been, but there has been a general increase, and in rowing it has been particularly conspicuous. Most graduates remember the time when only a few men rowed at Harvard. Since then the number of the men on the river has enormously increased; in fact it has doubled since 1920. "Rowing for the many" is not merely a phrase at Harvard, but a fact. In the spring of 1922, 632 men rowed; last autumn (1922) 552 men rowed, and there were 37 eights on the river, in addition to fours...