Word: stadia
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...Higginson's stadia streakers, Gil Welch, said, "Freshman year of the erg was the worst thing I ever experienced, but now I'm on top of it and it's not that bad I much prefer it to stadiums--they're the worst...
...pieces or stadia, winter rowing seems to spell misery for those stout-hearted souls who insist on outlasting the ice on the Charles River. "You always think of quitting in the winter," four-year oarswoman Roxanne Malenbaum said, "and I'm not sure why I don't, because I can't tell you I love...
...Englishman who happened to be caught up in the crowd and whizzed off to one of the stadia, there was the bittersweet sensation of seeming to hear, sung by millions, a song he had composed himself and for which he was getting no royalties. Not that England ever forced football on anyone except savages who had to be weaned from bloodier sports: the game has sold itself to civilized countries as effectively as whisky or Coca-Cola. Indeed football is the only international language, apart from...
...than citizens of any comparable geographic area in America. The people of Boston have asked Harvard for the use of the Stadium for seven games in the Fall. The request is reasonable. Penn's Franklin Field is used regularly by the Philadelphia Eagles. Princeton and Yale annually make their stadia available to the New York Giants and Jets...
...League, based on this thinking, is to be judged not by the standard of top-notch performance in the stadia, but by the question "Does this type of program contribute more or less to the educational process?" Quite obviously it contributes more: because at an ivy college, anyone with reasonable ability and the will to work at a sport can go out for that sport and will be given a chance and some coaching. At any college where top-notch performance is guaranteed continually by "athletic scholarships" (what a contradiction those two words make anyway!) the student body...