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...Stadium track was still too soft yesterday for use, the University track team was compelled to run again on the speedway and on the sidewalk along the side of Soldiers Field. The distance men ran about two miles, and the half-mile squad ran about a mile on the speedway. Candidates for the broad and high jumps, the hurdles, and the sprints ran about a quarter of mile on the sidewalk. As on Monday the men who are trying for the weight events were coached by Mr. Quinn...
...University track team was not able to use the Stadium yesterday as the track had not been rolled. The distance men ran about two miles on the speedway, while the half-mile squad ran as far as the first turn in the speedway and back, a distance of about one mile. The sprint squad, the hurdlers, and the candidates for the broad and high jumps ran about a quarter of a mile on the side walk, along the side of Soldiers Field. Mr. Quinn coached all the men who are trying for the weight events...
Yesterday afternoon the 30 candidates for the cross country team were sent out on the first of the practice runs under the leadership of A. King 2L. The course was about two miles up the Speedway along the Cambridge bank of the river, and back to the Locker building by the way of Mt. Auburn Street. As this was the first run of the season the pace was very slow, and the men were allowed to run almost as they pleased...
Plans have been drawn up by the City of Cambridge for a new road to connect North Harvard street with the Charles River Speedway and to run across Soldiers Field back of the Stadium and the baseball stands. The surveying has already been completed and work will probably begin in the early spring...
...Harvard Riverside Associates, whose purpose is to gain control of the land along DeWolfe street between Mt. Auburn street and the Charles River, so that it shall not be developed in any way detrimental to the possible construction of a suitable approach to the University from the Charles River Speedway. This trust at present has a capital of $400,000, and its holdings, together with those of the University Associates, place the larger part of this land in the hands of graduates...