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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 Clubhouse,
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 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 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.