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ATHLETICS.

The Athletic Park contains twenty-one acres, and includes two athletic
fields, Lambeth Field and Lefevre Field, as well as a driving park,
set with trees and hedges and containing the site for the proposed Athletic
Club-house, which is now in process of erection. Two hundred
thousand surface feet have been perfectly graded, drained and fenced, for
football, baseball, and track work. This surface was completed at a cost
of about fifty thousand dollars, and involved the removal of forty-eight
thousand cubic yards of earth. A concrete stadium has been erected,
seating eight thousand persons.

Games and sports of all kinds are under the special direction of the
General Athletic Association, a student organization whose object is to
encourage this phase of physical exercise. The faculty, by means of its
Committee on Athletics, exercises a general advisory control, endeavoring
to foresee and avert dangerous tendencies or excess in physical exercise,
while giving to the students, as far as possible, entire liberty of
management. A strict supervision is maintained over the character of
intercollegiate games, and the number of these which may be played
away from the University is definitely limited.