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...Executive Committee that this year they ring a bell in all the longer races when the men enter on the last lap. A cinder path is, of course, impossible this year, but a very fair track, like the old one, can be made by taking up the sod, and watering and rolling the earth beneath. We hope to see a large contingent from the Freshman class, if from no other, taking strong work upon the path, when it is laid out, every...
...committee was then appointed to lay out a track immediately on Jarvis Field. As to lay a proper cinder track would require so much time as to leave none for training, it was decided to make a sod track, and it is thought that it will be fit for use on Monday of next week...
...field-meeting, and it can hardly be doubted that, had such a meeting taken place this year, it would have proved the best ever held at Harvard. But, unfortunately, it cannot be; Jarvis is in a too tender state to admit of even laying a track on it: the sod must first grow thicker, or the field might be ruined for the future. Every one who was present at Beacon Park last year will see the absurdity of attempting another meeting there. It is too far distant to induce men to take advantage of its track. So there is nothing...
Ulysses wanders by the crisping wave, And longs to tread once more his native sod...
Your eyes from yonder heavens unto the sod...