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Show Harvard Students Favor Enlarging Big Stand Harvard undergraduates, gathered at a mass meeting at the Harvard union, voted by a large majority for the two additions proposed by the Harvard Athletic association to increase in-crease the capacity of the present stadium sta-dium on Soldier field, Cambridge, to ' a seating capacity of SO.OOO. Voting followed a debate in which Lothrop Withington, captain of the Harvard football team in 1911, and Adolphus Marion Cheek, Harvard (lap-tain (lap-tain in 192G, argued in favor of the increased stadium. Harvard, with 2,200 entrants each ye r and a death of 500 yearly in the graduate body, needs the proposed increase, Cheek stated. Dr. William Conant of the class of '79, asked that a new stadium of 150,-000 150,-000 seats be erected instead of the planned increase to the present stadium. |