Word: playground
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bassett, ex-congressman and member of the advisory committee on zoning of the Department of Commerce in 1922, will lecture, as will Harland Bartholomew, prominent city planner. Alfred Bettman, Cincinnati lawyer and city planner; Charles W. Eliot, II, a member of the Capitol Park and Playground Commission in Washington; L. H. Weir, member of the Park, Playground, and Recreation Association of America; and Theodore K. Hubbard, honorary librarian of the American City Planning Institute, complete the list of prominent lecturers...
...years past the ten thousand boys of Allston have considered the Stadium their playground on Saturdays. The mornings have been devoted to playing hide and seek with the revered officers of the law. In the afternoons, as the crowd pours through the gates to witness the over-emphasis of football in the weekly titanic struggles, the boys go into action. They have forgotten the beneficence of the Harvard Athletic Association which has played host to them on previous Saturdays and now become an annoyance to the cash customers...
Thanks to the contributions of several benefactors as yet unknown to the public, the gymnasium has become a possibility. At least the swimming pool, and the physical education, wrestling and boxing facilities, have become a very definite possibility. Still, the gymnasium as a complete unit, as a playground for the countless leagues of intra-mural teams, is not assured...
Showman Burnside has long since abandoned the Hippodrome to vaudeville, cinema, possible demolition (TIME, Feb 11). Lately he went to the seaboard's playground, Atlantic City, N. J., to institute a new Hippodrome show-house. Last week, in a $15,000,000 auditorium which seats 41,000, he presented Here and There, a pageant calculated to crowd what is reputedly the world's largest indoor stage...
...that do the cries of tennis players can be of little disturbance in an age where the screeches of automobile horns and the grinding of trolley cars are legal anywhere and anytime. Afternoon athletics can hardly be held to dampen the enthusiasm of church-go-ers just because the playground happens to be near a place of worship...