Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Crowds attending the West Point, Dartmouth and Pennsylvania football games at the Stadium next fall will find the old familiar wooden stands blocking the open end of the horseshoe. W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, received notice yesterday from E. T. Roemer, acting building commissioner of the city of Boston, that permission to rebuild these temporary stands, suspended last year, would be accorded again for this fall...
...project which has been completed during the past year is the survey of the wooden box industry of New England, which was conducted at the request of the New England Council. The data gathered in this investigation were summarized and analyzed by the Harvard Bureau of Business Research. The report has been presented by the Council to representatives of the industry and will probably form the basis of important reorganizations...
...Voted,. . . . to obtain sketches from Mr. Charles A. Coolidge for plans for replacing the wooden stands," ran in part the vote upon the Stadium question which the Corporation passed last Monday. This excerpt from the resolution brings forcibly to mind a realization of the architectural monopoly long in existance at Harvard...
Boston city officials notified the H. A. A. a year ago that permission to erect the temporary wooden stands would not be granted another season, due to the danger of fire, unless the University was able to advance a plan providing for a permanent remedy of the seating problem in the Stadum. There has been an understanding that if such a plan were presented, with the assurance that construction would be complete by the fall of 1929, permission to rebuild the temporary stands would be given for this fall. Home games with the Army, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania and Holy Cross will...
...estimate of the cost either of the portable steel stands or of the permanent concrete seats is available. Mr. Bingham was out of town last night and could not be reached for a statement on the matter.WOODEN STANDS, CONDEMNED BY FIREMEN, WILL GIVE PLACE TO CONCRETE STRUCTURE The Stadium wooden stands that have been so long a bone of contention with the Boston fire-commissioners may be supplanted this fall by a modern concrete bowl. The Corporation has authorized the Director of Athletics to consider plans for such a project submitted by C. A. Coolidge...