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...steel stands which were used on the old football field are being moved into position about the new baseball diamond, and two sections are already in place. When all the stands have been placed they will occupy three sides of the field and will seat about 5,000 people. As long as the weather permits, work will continue on the new diamond. Considerable grading, however, will have to be done in the spring, especially on the outfield which will probably not be finished this year...
...Johnson will speak this evening, at 8 o'clock, in the Lecture Room of Pierce Hall, on "The Construction of the Harvard Stadium." He will describe the nature and the characteristics of the materials used in the building of the Stadium and will explain the principles of steel-concrete construction. Professor Johnson gave a more technical description of this subject before the Boston Society of Civil Engineers last Tuesday...
...running track in the Stadium is to be pushed forward as well as it can be under the weather conditions. Arrangements for the new baseball diamond and stands are to be made as soon as possible and work on the stands is to be begun immediately, utilizing the steel frames of the old football stands...
...Henry Stedman Nourse, a class-mate of President Eliot in the class of 1853 died suddenly at his home in South Lancastter, Mass., on Saturday afternoon. Mr. Nourse was superintendent and engineer of the Bassemer steel works at Steelton, Pa., from 1866 to 1874; was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1883, of the State Senate in the year 1885-6, and trustee of the Worcester Insane Hospital for ten years until 1898. He had been a member of the State Library Commission, of the State Board of Charities, of the Massachusetts Historical Society...
...that barring accidents, the seats will be ready for the Yale game. It is expected that the concrete structure itself will be completed by November 1, and then the attention of nearly all the 500 men working on Soldiers Field will be given to erecting the seats and the steel beams which support them. A good many of the beams are, however, already in place and an average of 130 seats are being erected a day. With the temporary wooden stand to be built for the Yale game, the Stadium will accommodate 34,000 people. If, as is feared...