Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...week of celebration of John Harvard's three hundredth birthday was brought to a glorious finish last night when the undergraduate part of the program was carried out. President Eliot's address, the torch-light procession to the Stadium, the bonfire on Soldiers Field, and the return to the Yard were the features of the celebration. Unique in the history of the present College generation, it will be remembered by all who saw it, whether as participants or spectators, as one of the most beautiful sights that Harvard has ever witnessed, surpassing in some respects the illumination of a Class...
...Holworthy at 7.30 o'clock, immediately after the parade had formed. Led by the Pierian band, the march to the field was then started. About eight hundred men, mostly with torches and sashes, were in line as the procession moved from the Johnston Gate down Boylston street. In the Stadium several formations were tired, ending finally in a gigantic "H" of torches, covering nearly the whole gridiron. The fireworks, while hardly sufficient to make a good showing in so large a space, added to the beauty of the scene. West of the Stadium the bonfire, a big, substantial...
...University basketball team, and J. D. Leland '09, assistant manager of the University track team. Permission was given to the Freshman shooting team to go to New haven next Saturday, and also to the First Corps Cadets and Battery A to play their annual football game in the Stadium on Thanksgiving Day, it being understood that the Corporation does not object...
...Harvard Song Competition, the Song Committee selected as the best two, "Harvard Yard," to the tune of "Maryland" by J. C. Bills '09, and "Anniversary Hymn" to the tune of "Battle Hymn of the Republic" by J. E. Cates '10. These will be sung on the parade to the Stadium Friday night...
...coaches throughout the year to develop the ends, and the way in which the latter played on Saturday proved conclusively that the effort had been successful. Their tackling, as was that of the whole team, was as fierce and hard as has been seen in the Stadium for some time...