We've all seen the great Colosseum,

And stayed in the Stadium too;

We've chortled a hearty "Te Deum"

To christen the battle-ground new.

But we like Johnny Harvard's big boys,

Who stubbornly fought 'gainst their fate;

And so with a great Dartmouth noise,

Their Stad-i-um we celebrate.

For posterity's benefit, another Dartmouth enthusiast gouged the 11-0 score into the still-wet concrete of the colonnade wall.

The Stadium was made possible by two gifts--the first by Major Henry Lee Higginson and the second by the Class of 1879.

Student Playground

In 1890, Higginson--sponsor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Memorial Hall--gave to his alma mater the broad swamps across the Charles that are new occupied by the Business School and the athletic plant, Soldiers' Field.

In a letter written to the Corporation on June 5, 1890, Higginson said: "My hope is that the ground will be used for the present as a playground for the students. . .

"The only other wish on my part is, that the ground should be called 'Soldiers' Field,' and marked with a stone bear the names of some dear friends, alumni of the University, and noble gentlemen who gave freely and eagerly all they had or hoped for to their country and to their followmen in the hour of great need--the War of 1861 to 1865--in defense of the republic: James Savage, Jr., Charles Russell Lowell, Edward Barry Dalton, Stephen George Perkins, James Jackson Lowell, Robert Gould Shaw."

James Russell Lowell selected some of Ralph Waldo Emerson's verse for an epitaph which was carved on the stone immortalizing the six men: