Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...need of money for the new gymnasium, the Stadium question, and the expansion of the athletics-for-all policy were the main topics treated by Mr. Bingham in the course of his speech. In spite of the fact that the full quota necessary for the construction of the new athletic plant has not yet been reached, he stated that work on the gymnasium would be carried on as rapidly as possible...
...Harvard is divided on the question of the enlargement of the Stadium," Mr. Bingham continued. "The Corporation and the Overseers of the University have declared their opposition to such a step and, as a result, the Alumni may be limited to one seat for the Yale football game. It is to be hoped, however, that the Alumni, who through their representatives, the Overseers, have turned down the proposition of a larger stadium, will accept this enforced limitation without complaint...
Although no definite statement to that effect was made, the general impression gathered at the dinner was that the open end of the Stadium will be filled in with steel stands to replace the much-discussed wood structure which has been in use during past years...
Most Americans come to college without cultural background, without an intimation that the contemplative factor in life is one of the supreme experiences, even more thrilling than kicking a goal from the field in the stadium. Psychopathology, because it is a new subject, and because it deals with the spirit of man in all its vigorous vagaries, progressive and regressive, and hence is the subject par excellence for the pre-occupation of man, has the necessary explosives for lighting the intellectual fuse in the minds of at least some undergraduates. No young man should go through college unburned. It does...
...regulations, but by the normal course of University development. Harvard men, with fresh stimuli ever calling, have shown that they can take their football or leave it alone. It is not unreasonable to suppose that when the question arises again, as it will inside of a decade, a larger stadium will be built at Harvard...