Word: stadia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three buglers, one at Cambridge, one at New Haven, one at Ithaca, filled three crowded but silent stadia with the long-drawn notes of Taps, in memory of the late Percy Duncan Haughton (TIME, Nov. 3), football coach extraordinary. Thousands of football spectators stood bareheaded the while...
...College of Preachers" has been proposed, advocated, and will soon be established in connection with the "National Cathedral" at Washington, see of Bishop Freeman. It will train men of power to evangelize America. They will preach in baseball grounds, university stadia, wherever a crowd may be had. They will be inspired by the example of Peter the Hermit, Whitefeld, General Booth and other historic pulpitless preachers...
...regard the Harvard-Yale football series as something coeval with the founding of the younger universities. As a matter of fact the series, with the background as the youth of today knows it, has been in existence some scant twenty-five years. Before then there were no great stadia and no series of home and home games...