Word: field
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meeting of the trustees of Columbia college some time since, a resolution was passed giving the athletic association the use of the field on Washington: Heights, provided a sufficient sum should be subscribed by the grounds in condition. President Low announced that $17,530 has been raised which will be quite sufficient to put the grounds in repair. The plans for the new organization provide for an executive committee of sixteen, eight graduates and eight undergraduates, which will have supervision over athletic sports. Each of the four leading sports of the college, rowing, baseball, foot ball and track athletics, have...
...once found it here and used it at some private theatricals in Boston but was ignorant that it had been Lord Brougham's. Finally it seems to have been thrown into the cellar by some careless janitor with a pile of rubbish and when, some years ago, Holmes field was filled in and levelled, the rubbish from the old Law school cellar was taken out and emptied there, and it is thougt that the wig was buried with the rest. It seems to me much to be regretted that a souvenir, the value of which Mr. Sumner so well appreciated...
...shown in other colleges, could not help proving strongly beneficial; third, the members should devote more personal attention to the study of the Bible; fourth, the fact should be gravely considered that a much smaller per cent. of men now devote themselves after graduation to work in God's field of labor than in the years gone...
...probable that the well known Beacon base ball nine will be in the field this year...
...this year to give medals instead of the miscellaneous articles given last year for prizes. The die for these medals will cost money and the meet will be expensive in one or two other respects. The club intends if possible to have the corners of the track on Holmes field raised. This will not hurt the track for running and will make it one of the fastest bicycle tracks in America. To meet these and other expenses the club is busy raising subscriptions. They hope to be able to raise enough to make the meet thoroughly successful...