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Will Honor Seniors With
Garden Party Today.
The final ball for the class of 1935
will be held tonight at the Rice Hotel
beginning at ten o'clock. Plans have
been made to make this affair the big-
gest and best function of its sort ever
held by a graduating class and it is
climaxing one of the most successful
social seasons for seniors that people
connected with the institute have wit-
nessed. Much credit is due to Presi-
dent Raleigh White and his aides for
their excellent arrangements.
In recognition of the services per-
formed for the class the present of-
ficers of the senior class were elected
by acclaimation to be the permanent
officers of the Class of '35 at the Senior
Banquet that was held at San Jacinto
Inn on the evening of Friday, May 31.
Lee M. Shearer, former member of
the faculty at Rice made the principle
address.
Favors were given to the ladies in
attendant at the function held in a
modestly decorated parlor.
The Senior American was held Sat-
urday morning at the Riee "Top Deck"
and the seniors and their friends danced
to the scintillating rythms of Seymour
Simons and his orchestra. This band
will be on hand tonight to give more
of the delightful music.
At five o'clock this afternoon the
President and Mrs. Lovett will enter-
tain the seniors at the Annual Garden
Party, which will be held in the Court
of the Physic Laboratories.
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Last Monday night at College Inn
the R Association of Rice Institute held
their annual banquet. Captains were
elected in four sports, and letter awards
were announced in tennis, golf, and
track. The banquet, celebrating cham-
pionship teams in football, basketball,
and honoring Wilbur Hess, winner of
the Southwest Conference singles title,
was one of the most enthusiastic turn-
outs in the .history of the association.
Gold wrist watches were awarded to
the football lettermen, basketball let-
termen, Wilbur Hess, Jake Hess, and
Lou Hertenberger. These were ap-
propriately engraved.
The basketball lettermen elected R.
T. Eaton to captain the 1936 cage team.
"Smokey" Brothers and Jess Petty were
elected co-captains of the track team.
Bill Lorimer will lead the tennis team,
and Denton Wise was selected as golf
captain.
Only one letter award was made to
the golf team, that going to Bill Bar-
ton, who was low scorer of the Owls
in the conference tournament. Hess
and Bill Lorimer were awarded tennis
letters.
The track lettermen are Louis Broth-
ers, Bill Wallace, Jess Petty, Harold
Johnson, David Weichert, Vernon Wil-
son, Eugene Oliver, Kit Reid, Sam
Mays, Norman Letts, Barney Haley,
"Doc" Metzler, Aaron Stanford.
Jake Hess was elected new president
of the R Association. John McCauley
was elected student representative to
the committee on athletics. Fred Stan-
cliff was re-elected secretary-treasurer
of the association.
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Kathryn Pearson Will Not
Defend Collegiate Title
Kathryn Pearson, the Woman's Na-
tional Intercollegiate Tennis Champion,
has stated that "she will not defend her
title in the intercollegiate circles this
summer. She will attend summer
school at the University of Colorado at
Boulder and intends to play in the
Colorado State Tournament.
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Overflowing Crowd Attends Opening of Commencement
Ceremonies at Chemistry
Courts.
Lest IVe Forget
The twentieth annual commencement
of The Rice Institute opened yesterday
morning with a Baccalaureate sermon
delivered by the Reverend Williard L.
Sperry, D.D., Dean of The Harvard
Divinity School.
A large crowd attended the open air
affair that, was held in the Court of
the Chemistry Laboratories, at nine
o'clock in the morning, It was the first
commencement exercise that has been
held in this location—in previous years
the exercises were held in the Court
at the Administration Building.
Promptly at nine o'clock the Rice
Band under the direction of Lee Cheat-
ham began playing and after a few
strains the procession started from the
Administration Building, and moved
toward the Chemistry Court. When the
procession reached the tomb of the
founder of the institute, William Marsh
Rice, Mary Calder Rice, niece of the
founder, accompanied -by three officers
of the senior class, placed a wreath
upon the tomb. After the opening cere-
monies Dean Sperry spoke.
Nehemiah II, 17—"Then said I unto
them, Ye see the distress we are in
. . come, and let us build up again
tre wall of Jerusalem."
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Leslie Stephen, the English critic of
a generation ago, once said that he
knew nothing about the theological in-
fallibility of the Bible, but that he did
believe in the plenary literary inspira-
tion of the narrative parts of the Old
Testament. All of us share that belief.
There never have been any stories to
match those of the Hebrew Bible. They
littve jjii.1 into oui *h .lUght aitc*
speech as the common coin by which
we share our experiences. It is in this
spirit that I give you for our bacca-
laureate day certain parables of life,
drawn from this ancient story of the
men of Nehcmiah's day rebuilding the
walls of their world.
I.
The story is prefaced by a simple
and gallant sentence: "The people had
a mind to work." It would be an in-
sult to those of you who are leaving
here this year to ask you whether you
have that mind. Presumably you are
cherishing a hope and making plans
for your work. The real question is,
can you find work?
Those of us a generation ahead of
you, who were able to strike roots into
our business or profession twenty
years ago, are fortunate, tt is no vir-
tue to us that we came on the scene
when there were jobs for all. We have
heard much in recent years of the wild
morals and the wilder political the-
ories of present-day college men and
women of America. Before we criticize
you we ought to try to put ourselves
in your place. We have happily been
spared the perplexity and the humilia-
tion of standing idle in the market
places of the world because no man
has hired us. We have had our work
and our livelihood. It is otherwise with
you. Today you have no assurance
that you will be granted the first oNjll
human birthrights, the right to work.
How can we expect you to take with
complacency an age and a land where
this right is so often denied you. If
we were in your place we should un-
derstand better your just resentment
at a society which somehow is not able
to guarantee you your right to bread-
labor. The world has not been as kind
to you as it was to us, and it ill be-
comes us to criticize you without first
attempting to understand you.
Yet when one has said so much it
still remains true that the mind to work
is by no means a universal and con-
stant fact, Wordsworth speaks some-
where of "that majestic indolence so
dear to native "man", and there is in
us all a natural man who is always
ready to be idle. Not only Is this so,
but the kind of work for which col-
lege* and universities stand is the
hardest of all work. There was a minor
German poet at the beginning of the
last century who was always saying to
his friends: "If thinking were only not
so hard," In that remark he betrayed
why he remained a minor poet.
It is beside the mark to waste time
discussing whether work is a curse or
a blessing, £ punishment or an oppor-
tunity. Ihe Bible Is not consistent at
this point. At the beginning ok the
Old Testament it seems to be a penalty
for sin. Toward the end of the New
Testament it seems to become a
chance to share the task of God. Men
have never been agreed on the mat-
ter. At one moment we condemn men
to hard labor for life, at another rtiK-
The academic year about to close has
been a good year, perhaps the best one
of all. It has been, none the less a
hard year, for in no year since the war
have we lost so many friends and bene-
factors by death. Since we last as-
sembled at commencement time there
has passed on:
MRS. JAMES; L. AUTRY, author of
innumerable kindnesses to us, and who
gave to the students Aulry House ad-
joining the campus, as a memorial to
her husband;
DR. STOCKTON AXSON, for twen-
Crisis in Railroad Industry Is Due to Financial and Economic
Maladjustment; Service Is Better Than
Ever Before.
ment we call them, invite them, elect j ty-two years Professor at- English Lit- j
them to hard labor for life. Whatever J erature, admired by all who read him, j IrJ^(
it may be, work is a necessity. And no j beloved of all who knew him;
man will ever have tasted what human I MR. EUGENE L. BENDER, lumber-
life is until he knows the meaning of; man and capitalist, who has left us an
j unrestricted bequest of S200,CIQ() far a
WILLARD L. SPERRY
memorial to his mother. Lena Bender,
and his father, Charles Bonder. Sr.,
pioneer builders and manufacturers in
Texas, with descendants among the
promising students of this institution;
MISS JOHNELLE HRYAN. whose
bequest of $2500 will enable us to es-
tablish another scholarship, and thus.j^y^ hot be otherwise
maintain a memorial to her own. life-
time of devoted service to teaching
and learning;
MR. ROBERT I. COHEN of Galves-
ton, whose son, GEORGE S., inspired
by his father's example of loyalty and
integrity, gave us the Robert and Agnes
Cohen House in honor of his parents;
PROFESSOR HUGO DE VR1ES of
Amsterdam, inaugural lecturer in 1912,
who maintained throughout, every one
of the intervening year-, a lively inter-
est in our work;
MR. EDWARD ANDREW PEDEN,
for twelve years a trustee of this foun-
dation, and of faithful and notable
service alike to state, church, and un-
The commencement address for the j
of 1985 was delivered the morn- j
ing of June 3, at nine o'clock, in the j
'Court, of the Chemistry Laboratories.
The speaker for the occasion was Ralph ;
Buck), Dr. Engr, President of the Burl-i
ington Lines. The context of the ad- |
dress is as follows
During the last three or four four!
years there has been a tendency to'
question almost every phase of what
we call progress and to doubt whether
the sum. total has been, in reality, a
gain. This is but natural, in fact it
iti these trying I
times- I wish to speak of this subject j
today, but I shall confine my remarks,
chiefly, to the sphere of material prog-
ress, to the direction in which it seems
to me it has gone and in which it is
likely or desirable that it may go. The
third chapter of Macaulay's History of
England is an excellent example of the
merit of taking stock after a period of
active changes. I should like to adopt
as a basis' for my discussion a short
paragraph fro mithat chapter, which
reads as follows:
"In every experimental science there
is a tendency town! d perfection In
every human being there is si wish to
ameliorate his own condition. These
two principles have often sufficed, even
Hess Plans
Brain Trust
In Portugal
Too- Caldwell
Rice Professor Visits Campus
During Graduation
Exercises.
Robert. Granville Caldvve!;. M.nfctW
to Portugal, and Dean on Jj^ve "li'flX
sence from Rice Institute. ;;; an mle|i
view Saturday morning expressed worm
admiration for the member- ol this
years .graduating cities . and
them all kinds of hick in ihor pufri
suits after leaving; the institute I>.
Oaldwelj is pipetted with ti < nieces*.:
and advancement tha: :«niu. f<ic.c<
graduates have aiiolneil. "Gut gr.io.4*;
ates compare most favorable tihti'
graduate* of other imiverpnnand a!l
lot ol them lire sueeev.-lr.it: in their1
woik."
When asked about tin c< mpiinsori ol
the Portuguese -executive aove riimetat,
Dr. Caldwell laughingly said, Amer-
ica's Brain Trust will hardly
with that ol jjporlqjga!;' Half et"
iuel memliors :,of the ^governr
university officials and. profess.
Prime Mitiister'jis^Priffv^.!!-': vf
at t'oiemba,Portugal's Co'",v.,:
era!'Arts; 'f'he Minister' of 'FV>>|.
tats is' rector ;:arid; Pi'oi'e?
the University fit liis'lu'm.
ol the: Col"t i■ :
jc.H "'at' Abe . Jmv,!.uiuverrit'y
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what the Russian novelists of the last '"mr^ DANIEL RIPLKY. who endow-
century used to call "bread-labor."
This labor cannot be always exciting
and interesting. Charles Eliot is re-
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Ten Students
Enter Phi
Beta Kappa
Honorary Society Elected 25
New Members This
Year.
At a meeting of the Beta Chapter of
the Phi Beta Kappa, honorary scholas-
tic fraternity, -Jield Thursday afternoon,
the following students were elected to
the society: George Alvin Garrett,
William Grosvenor Pollard, Samuel
Knox Banner, Earl Bower Barnes,
Esther Irene Beman, Philip Augustus
Belligie, Ray Augustus Cook, Laurence
Kawabe Kellersberger, Luolin Eliza-
beth Storey, Kathleen Marjorie Wilson.
This chapter is one of two chapters in
Texas; the other chapter is at the
University of Texas.
Other members elected this year are:
in the spring, Richard DeYoung. Jr.,
Deborah Gertrude Goldofski, Margaret
Rose Lodge, William Henry Masterson.
Eby Nell McElrath, and Clarence
Scheps; in the fall, John Henry Crook-
er, Jr, Helen Elizabeth Johnston, Mil-
dred Rosetta McDavid, Willie Eunice
Magee, George Edgar Pike, Fred Terry
Rogers, Jr., and Mildred Louise Sel-
kirk. This completes the roster of
twenty-five new members.
Of Tennis
Rice Star Will End His Last
Season of Tournament
' Tennis.
porous.
1 think H
when counteracted by .great pi]b%
ealiuiiitiesiftnd.'by bad; in.«tituti"ris, in
carry civilization rapidly forward.! No
ordinary liiisfdrtuiiii-'i,, n'J' ordinary Siite
•nmetit. will d" much ® make |
hi wretched, as the constant prog-
ress of physical knewledee and ike
constant-effort oi every mfei !" better
himself will do to make a natum t>ros-
. nnf'.ortan-. iia'tr-' (.o-'v.--
riO'inl.H r that he could -say this t. von in
the lace < f such' cmidinopj' as Aib'.une.i
... , . ,, ,,, .. ,, .it •!,(.■ tune ol Cha:,l."- die S.eon... .,i;'i :
\\ edtiepday at Dallas Vdbur Hess. . •„,( Jfefi
Hices Southwest Conterencc tennis -J^ :
t.iojif,' proatcr difficulties, irt }■ijis'f '
more eoiuiviuous. than :;itvy v., hi,v.. ••
.known On the other hand, die nrnr.'y
years that have pa,vr<j'since' lie V-V'-V
tlaise words have • brought' .•^'rgjdor,.
'changes than have oceurnd chnin:.; a;u i
i |■.'.•vi"iis <4t't||ui;y
p| ®!w|. ;$:«i
Since die .-.i-calliil .li-daitt ;.e ' ec:,
• lution. all industry has ex|>erioneed a
.phenomenal yrowtb, and the lapidi!;.
(if this growth coupled with lack ot'
previous experience, has inevitably re-
sulted in many mistakes, much waste,
error, injustice. Also, each industry
„ , "|V'. has had its periods of rapid expansion
For several vears the slight ... 1
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At the annual banquet of the Rice Owl netter has ranked among the best 1
ed scholarships to the memory of her
husband and others ift her own! harae;
and rewarded still farther the bene-
ficiaries of these endowments with her
personal good will and affection while
i she lived;
| MRS. M. L.-ROBBIh'S, u.-.citizen
.the whole wide world by travel, who
; lias beejueaerieu ^,)lKJ'.r to (he Stiuderris
j Loan Fund as a memorial to her hus-
] band, whose; earlier career in railway
i transportation, is also, borive-in kind.'re-
j membrancc , in this comnkumtv.
I and MR. HARRIS WEINGARTKN I
native of Poland, founder of. a well- champion will begju th- sum-nei toui
known family and substantia) businoss n«,nU:nt !|J |})< StaU1 chani-
enterprise, who has bequeathed SlOW} ^'howmg tins tournament
Ito the yeneral funds of the Rice Insti- h'uve on a iotir which will
j t'ui€! : I'arry is'mm NfitibnVil
For the noble works of these > tir ; ;:,<1et ,n Chicago on June 25.
' benefactors we- thank God. and from Hc.-s w;.i participate in the Sou.bun
! their heartenlhg exaibplo^e take cour- Championships. at Nasrhvi.lle; leim., and
j«t?*e Xational Clay iC'ourts Championship,
j* V'^ -v'';""".". ''Viiti'■/Chitiagivprevious to.',the collegiate'
| tiiUrhaitiebt. Following1.the latter: ev^nt;
T> J f ^ the Rice star will compete in the Weist-
| lAClU. VJlV vli | ern Chanipionship, also at Chicago.
1~ i « || Hess, who graduates this year, has!
QO (j Awaru ' -"I'^'nced his intention of giving up ;
'tournament, tennis following this sum- '
: mors tour
l -nd .grudutites' o!' one ot Porttu a! '
rrtivi-r sifWS These offices ..re
',c.ith thi appiovnl of the {>ct>p
'■the biLsiiau.s inen of Ponu. .1. vslj
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Band which was held last Friday night
at the Golfcrest Country Club, the of-
ficers for the coming year were elected.
For the year 1935-36 George Shipley
was elected president and William Eli-
saff was elected business manager.
Richard Hudson who served as librarian
I this year was re-eleeted to the post for
another year.
Kittrell Hugo Reid was awarded the
Monigomery Cup which is given each
year to the best all-around bandsman.
Reid has long bec^^n outstanding
member of the band aw his receiving
this award is positive recognition for
the merits of the musician.
,, . , ■ „ But 1 flt'lii'Ve 1 llal
collegiate players in the country and ' . . .
last vear went to the semi-finals of ! phonomen,, are. not. inherent «r
the National CoUegiate rttoet before he hl" ,hey # fl|^
was beaten by Gene Mako in a bitterly ! casualt.es of an experiment.,I penod.
fought match, Mako won the title the I. Hecogn*in« the tendency of expei-
following day ' lmental science toward perfection ; as a
.. Hess will play in the doubles in the j
■ Teutonic strai ..- S'.;;
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tnrc. us cu.ltum is moti
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most important factor in progress, and M 'JJ''" " ''' '''
I should ,like to illustrate
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Texas Stale Tourney paired with his ! i,y' . ,, .
brother, Jake Hess, who won the South- ' ,ht' ^ht "f n l^micular f.eld pt
west Conference singles title in 1933. H&vor; the one with which 1 happen
Last summer Wilbur toured lhc eonneeted. transp,rtaUon
country and won several singles titles, I1 ,wl WftJS m dom«-so. nol.ehtelly ,
as well as several doubles champion- i^use it is the one with which I fm,
ship. In the doubles Hess teamed with
' Doc" Barn Southern Methodist tennis,
ace,
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THE RICE INSTITUTE
AN AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
DEDICATED TO THE ADVANCEMENT
OF LIBERAL AND TECHNICAL LEARNING
AND THE PROGRESS OF MANKIND
IN LETTERS SCIENCE AND ART
' " FOUNDED AND ENDOWED
AD MAIORIUM DEI GLORlUM
BY WILLIAM MARSH RICE
IN FREEDOM FOR RESEARCH
TO SOBER FEARLESS PURSUIT
OF TRUTH BEAUTY RIGHTEOUSNESS
AND TO ALL HIOH EMPRISE CONSECRATED
WOULD HAVE ALL MEN KNOW BY THESE PRESENTS
THAT IN THE PRESENCE OF THE TRUSTEES FACULTY
STUDENTS AND FRIENDS OF THIS UNIVERSITY
IN PUBLIC CONVENTION ASSEMBLED
AT ITS TWENTY -FIRST ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT
THE TRUSTEES H*VE CONFERRED UPON-
THEOBALD BLINKUS
A STUDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY
THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS
• \ylTH' ALL TUB RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES
APPERTAINING TO THAT DEGREE
Houston, Texas EDGAR ODELL LOVETT
June Third President
A. D. MDCCCCXXXV
Institute In their "pursuit of truth, beauty, and
The parody, written by Mr. I, M. Wilford, on
The 'Grecian Urn'
diploma was espe-
cially designed by
Dr. Lovett for the
Class of 1916, the
first class to grad-
uate from the
Rice Institute.
This unique fonn
was so well liked
that it has con-
tinued is use from
that time on. That
Dr. Lovett is
deeply influenced
by Ancient Greek
culture is shown
by his custom of
concluding his ad-
dress with a Ho-
meric line. The
Grecian Urn will
always be a sym-
bol and inspira-
tion to the stud-
ents of the Riee
THE RICE INSTITUTE
CLASS OF 1925
A BUNCH OF AMERICANS
OF UBERAL AND TECHNICAL LEARNING
OTHERWISE REASONABLY SOBER
PREVIOUSLY EXPOSED TO
LETTERS SCIENCE AND ART
TURNED OUT BUT NOT ENDOWED
TO A FEARFUL PURSUIT
AND SEARCH FOR SUBSISTENCE
IN MEDIO DEPRESSIONS MUCHISSIMO
WOULD HAVE YOU KNOW BY THESE PRESENTS
THAT THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY REUNION DINNER
FOR GRADUATES EX-STUDENTS AND FRIENDS
IN CONVOCATION WILL ASSEMBLE
VERY VERY INFORMALLY
IN THE COMMONS AND
CLASSMATE
YOU MUST COME
AND BRING YOUR SPOUSE OR DATE
THE CHARGE WILL BE ONE1 DOLLAR EACH
FOR ALL THE RIGHTS DUTIES AND PRIVILEGES
APPERTAINING TO THAT DINNER
ON CAMPUS t. M. WILFORD
JUNE FIRST President
A. D. MDCCCCXXXV
AT 7:30 P.M.
righteousness."
. je occasion of the tenth annual reunion of the Class of '25, of which
he is president, shows that Rice graduates know how to season their more sober pursuits with a little of the salt of wit
For many centuries, however, there
was no further improvement in land
travel. In fact, there was retrogres-
! sion, for after the Roman time the pol-
icy of building and maintaining good
; roads was to some extent abandoned,
j And until the beginning of the nine-
I teenth century there was nd improve-
! ment whatever in methods and means
of transportation over such roads as
existed. There were the pack saddle,
sled, and travois, the cart, wagon, coach,
and nothing else. Steam had been
known for the two thousand years but
until a little over a hundred years ago
it was not applied to commercial car-
riers. ,
North American Indians did not even
know the wheel, but packed or drag-
ged their burdens on land. They built
some ingenious water crnftt however,
the best known being the birch" canoe
and the dugout. Narratives of early
western travelers report the Mandans
using curious round boats made by
covering basket-like frames with buf-
falo hides, frbm which the boats war#
called "Bullboats". I had supposed
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fe.ssor ot Civil Engineet ing tit :ht Unj--
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no its and adtnmi-'tt at, •; ■ of the Gov-
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Dr. Caldwell says that fVr^tgio ii
perfect eotiniry i:: whieh. !.• stttdx
. S rffl >an historiea; .i' \ •iu
Caldwell hofH-s ti, veiufeti to K
when •diph.-mc'ru'
most familiar, but Wause it has, ] : '.
, think, more than any other, a special ;
and profound relevance to progress, t'h ri. 1 • I ' I
the development of a nation, to the otflullllll I IKHM'
! very eharacter and form of a civiliza- '
■lion. It, is hot" an aecjdOnt that the j
greatest empire of antiquity sliould |
. have bven the one that had the best
transportation system. It was upon Construction of the north st.,r.ds of
good roads that the Roman conquerors Kk.0 fieW is m)W W[.|| una( r wav The
wisely relied to hold together their vast foundation is laid and actual construe-
: empire. ;tion of the stands is slated to get under
way this week.
Construction
The new stands are being constructed
to meet the increased demand that tc*>k
place last year and is expeetcil to con-
tinue. The new stands will increase
the seating capacity by several thou-
sand. They will b'e three hundred and
six feet long and eighteen rows high,
permitting a seating capacity of 3800.
The contract for the construction of
the stands was let on May 11 to E. A.
Fretz Construction Company. The bid
was $16,090. This includes the cost of
building a modern press box and broad-
casting booth. The press box will scat
approximately 100 men. Facilities were
far too limited previously to accom-
modate the crowd of sport writers rep-
resenting their papers and news asso-
ciations. The press box will be ninety
feet -long and will have two rows of
tables,
The new stands will increase the
permanent seating capacity to 16,0001
With the temporary stands which at% '
erected in emergencies about, twenty
thousand persons can be accommodated.
The old press box will be used bv foot-
ball scouts.
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