Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dartmouth's track team will beat Harvard in the Stadium Saturday by about five bulletin. That's what the notice on the bulletin board at Dillon says and to make everything final, the points have been allotted, event by event. Only in the mile, where two red question marks have been pencilled in, is there apparently any doubt...
...comment has come from the undefeated track team. Most of Coach Mikkola's runners were out of the Stadium cinders yesterday, running through mid-week time trials in their sweat-suits, John Spivak, who pulled up slightly in the 100 last Saturday, is fit again and will run against Dartmouth...
...Performed the annual rite of spring demanded of Presidents since William Howard Taft* by tossing out the first ball to inaugurate the Washington Senators' baseball season at Griffith Stadium. The President is ambidextrous; after mulling it over for a few seconds, he threw the ball with his left hand...
Last Sunday, while the Italians were voting, the Paris comrades were summoned to the Stade Buffalo, a sports stadium, to hear Maurice Thorez. To 25,000 of the faithful, Thorez announced the new line-"la main tendue" (the outstretched hand). Said he: "The party extends a fraternal hand ... to all democrats, to all socialists who do not wish to be the pawns of American millionaires, to all Catholics sincerely devoted to progress and freedom, to all men of the Resistance...
...story, to be brief, is as follows. Across the river, destroying the somewhat aesthetic composition of the Business School and the Stadium, a metal tower is going up. Rumor has it that the tower is for television or something of the kind, but there is no reason to believe that insidious little story. Surely there is enough madness in the world already without a misplaced francophile trying to rival the Eiffel Tower with the sole aid of an erector set, thereby destroying Harvard's architectural symmetry...