Word: stadia
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...active use more than a Stadium which would be filled at most twice a year; that the present Stadium, architecturally, is unrivalled, and that the proposed enlargement would make it a monstrosity, also unrivalled; that intercollegiate football is primarily for the undergraduates, not for the graduates; and that larger stadia place the emphasis on bigger and better athletics and so overshadow the main and essential function of a college education...
...present form. Regardless of all the other merits of the problem, the money making potentiality of football, necessary as it is in the absence of any other means of supporting athletic exercises, is sufficient to swing the scales in its favor. It is the ultimate argument for bigger stadia, better athletes, and more publicity...
...sake of football and not for the sake of the havoc it creates. They are not fussy, but the present trend leaves them bewildered. Where in the carnival should those three hours which once formed the be-all and end-all be placed." Stripped of their trappings crowds, stadia, bands, riots how do they rate...
...beauty shows, rodeos, aquariums, stockyards. It has football stadia, fisticuffing gardens, chambers of horror, mad- houses. Also zoos, museums, 5-&-10-cent stores, a diamond horseshoe, divorce courts, a Congress and other exhibits. But, according to Dr. G. Clyde Fisher, of the American Museum of Natural History, one thing the U. S. has not got for its people to go and look at is a working model of the free and boundless heavens. . . . Last week Dr. Fisher, who is an astronomer, told Manhattan illuminating engineers that the American Museum would soon start raising three millions for a projection planetarium...
Necessarily correlative, however, with the building up of general participation in sport must be the destruction of that superstructure of stadia, highly paid coaches, mythical intersectional championships, tremendous box office receipts and so on, which have made intercollegiate sport into spectacle, have caused it to be conducted, as Mr. Lowell points out, not for the benefit of the students, but to furnish entertainment to the alumni and the public. Here Mr. Lowell has not carried out his ideas to their logical conclusion. He makes no mention, for instance, of an athletic endowment which would eliminate the pressing need...