Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...temporary wooden stands, heretofore erected at the open end of the Harvard stadium for the major games, are to be replaced with permanent steel stands...
Architects can perhaps perform the miracle of making steel stands a thing of beauty, harmonizing with the present concrete stadium. But at this moment it looks as if all that could be accomplished would be the perpetuation of an ugliness which may have been excusable in temporary wooden stands because they were known to be a makeshift...
...stands seating approximately 18,000 persons will fill in the open end of Harvard Stadium next fall, it was announced last night by W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics in the University. This announcement ends the problem which has been before the Harvard athletic authorities since the temporary wooden structure, which has been used for the last twenty years, was condemned two years ago by the Boston Building Commissioners...
...structure are not yet far advanced as to details, except that there will be a tunnel through which the track straightaway will run. Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch and Abbott, the University architects, will draw the plans for the new stands which will accommodate about the same number as the old wooden structure. Though no exact figures are available as to the cost of this improvement on Soldiers Field, it is understood that the sum will be in the vicinity of $175,000. When completed, the stands will be left in position permanently, or until such a time as a radical change...
Although plans have at last been adopted which call for the erection of permanent steel stands in place of the former wooden bleachers, the Stadium problem still remains unsolved. Only recently, Mr. Bingham explained the rapidly increasing demand for football tickets, which clearly indicated that the enclosed-Stadium as it now stands is no longer large enough; the time, he said, is almost at hand when each alumnus will be offered only one ticket for the Yale contest...