Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...looked like the finale of an old-fashioned Fourth of July celebration in The Bronx's Yankee Stadium one night last week. The murky sky was suddenly illuminated with scores & scores of blinding flashes of light as photographers frantically realized that they had to get a whole evening's work into a few fleeting seconds. In the centre of the field, in a little canvas ring, German Boxer Max Schmeling, who was challenging Negro Joe Louis for the heavyweight championship of the world, was collapsing physically and professionally like a sky rocket...
...Sokols in their flashing uniforms-shirts of Garibaldi red, grey Czech jackets slung from their left shoulders, little round red caps with falcon feathers-last week poured into Prague's big, bustling Masaryk and Wilson (named after Woodrow Wilson) railway stations, stomped out to the mammoth Masaryk Stadium,* high above the silvery Vltava River and the cathedral towers of the capital. There, in white jerseys and blue trousers and skirts, they twisted and bent in mass exercise. Before the month is over, 160,000 members will have participated in such elaborate drills...
Following luncheon today, the mile-long parade of alumni, led by the 25th reunion class, will start at 1:30, under the direction of Alan J. Lowrey '13, of San Francisco, Chief Marshall. The Stadium exercises, taking place on a special stage erected at the "Bowl" end, are scheduled for 2 o'clock...
Principal feature of the Stadium program will be the Ivy Oration, given this year by Nathaniel G. Benchley, of Scarsdale, New York. At the conclusion of Benchley's talk, and following the transferal of colors to the Freshman class, the confetti battle gets under...
Beginning at 11:30 o'clock this morning with the literary exercises in the Kirkland House triangle, Class Day, gayest festival of the Harvard year, will be celebrated all today and far into the night. The age-old confetti battle in the Stadium and the second of the Harvard-Yale baseball series in the afternoon, are other highlights of the holiday program, in which graduating Seniors and their guests, share the spotlight with the reunion classes back in Cambridge for a week of renewal of the old ties...