Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard, which now contains Freshman dormitories and College classrooms. To the north, across Cambridge Street, stretches the empire of the graduate schools and laboratories. On the south side of Massachusetts Avenue are the lairs of upperclassmen, reaching down to the Charles River, across which stand the Business School and Stadium...
Across the Charles River is the Business School. Here also, in the shadow of the Stadium, are the Dilion Field House, and the Carey and Briggs Cages. Nearby are tennis courts, soccer, football, baseball, and lacrosse fields, and the Newell Boat House...
...championships. Last winter, staggering under the responsibility of this multiple headdress, he tossed off the featherweight crown because he considered it too bothersome to get his weight down to the required maximum of 126 Ibs. Last week, before a crowd of 30,000 in New York's Yankee Stadium, another crown-the lightweight-toppled off when onetime Champion Lou Ambers (Luigi D'Ambrosio), whom he had dethroned a year ago, was awarded the nod in a 15-round match for the title...
More than anything, the Harvard Union symbolizes the Freshman class's newly-found unity. Built in 1901 with funds donated by Major Henry Lee Higginson, who also gave the College its stadium, to promote "the freest and fullest intercourse between students," the chunky brick building on Quincy Street houses many Yardling activities...
...Stadium now echoes with Jaako's barked commands as trackmen eat up lap after lap, having deserted the hot-house atmosphere of Briggs Cage for the cold oval...