Word: stadia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Football interest, from the undergraduate standpoint, has not decreased since the days when I was in college, nor has it increased particularly. The immense growth of stadia during the last few years is due, rather, to excited alumni and a football-crazy public," said the Reverend Frederick May Eliot '11, of Saint Paul, Minnesota, preacher this week at Appleton Chapel, when asked to compare his impressions of Harvard at the present time with those received in the first decade of the century...
...last quarter of a football game invariably seems to drag on forever. Time outs are frequent, and strained nerves magnify the precious seconds as they slip by. During the final dozen plays or so, every one of the thousands of spectators who pack the giant stadia of the country every autumn Saturday is thinking almost constantly of the amount of time left before the last whistle. And it seems reasonable to suppose that every one of them is entitled to know kow many minutes there are remaining...
...material, exploitation, and labor at slight cost. The schedule makers are planning five years ahead, signing contracts for attractive intersectional games, based no longer on natural rivalry or academic interest as has been the norm, but upon filling the stadium. Alumni, considering themselves stockholders, help to build the stadia, divert promising prep-school material to their particular plants, and ask only the dividends of victory over which they may gloat...
...tribes of gypsies, spiritualists, and all sorts of seers in all the far corners of the globe have been interviewed by CRIMSON agents since Joe Forecast first intimated some months ago that the rosy path of matrimony was going to lead him forever away from the printshops and football stadia...
Music is no longer a seasonal business. When spring darkens the great auditoriums, it also throws open the stadia and amphitheatres which now dot the country. In the U. S. May brings with it Festivals Weeks everywhere; June, July, August bring symphony concerts and opera al fresco. In Europe, more and more cities and villages are bidding for tourist trade with musical programs...