ATHLETICS.
The Athletic Park contains twenty-one acres, a part of which has
been laid out into a driving park, set with trees and hedges, and containing
the site for the proposed Athletic Clubhouse. 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 ten 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
exercises, while giving to the students, as far as is 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.
