Word: clays
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rumored that a club for clay pigeon shooting is to be started here...
...that I would propose a club in which men could not only get that training which will be of use to them in shooting deer on an Adriondack runway, or moose in the Maine woods, but in which they can also get a sufficient amount of glass-ball or clay-pigeon practice to bring them into good form for their summer's field work among the birds...
What the Tennis Association can do, however, is to provide for us courts that will cost little to build, that will need only a little sprinkling and occasional rolling to keep in order, and that will be only better the more they are played on-we mean bare clay courts. At Princeton no turf courts are used at all. The courts are almost as bare as a billiard table, require but little work, and can be played on half an hour after a rain. The new land east of the new track could be made into bare courts at very...
...Shaler ; volumes in the "American Men of Letter Series" on Hawthorne, by Prof Lowell, on Emerson, by Dr. Holmes, on Margaret Fuller, by F. W. Higginson, and on Franklin, by McMaster, author of the recently published History of the United States; and in the "American Statesman Series" on Henry Clay, by Carl Schurz and on Patrick Henry, by Prof. Moses Coit Tyler. The edition de luxe of Prof. Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads is also promised soon. "Yankee Doodle," the Poem recently read before the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa, by Robert Grant, and Charles Francis Adams, "College Fetich...
...that the mounds are of almost indefinite age-how old is not known and probably never will be-but everything goes to prove that they were constructed long before the discovery of this continent. In the centre of several of the mounds were altars composed of alternate layers of clay, sand, stones and ashes, no cement being used with the stones, which varied from the size of a hen's egg to several dounds in weight. The tops of the altars were concave and filled with fine sand, a portion of the burnt clay having been evidently removed. Judging from...