Word: dirt
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Fresh dirt is to be spread on the ground between the football field and the baseball diamond as it has become quite swampy...
...marsh, which after the park improvements are made will be a very pleasant one. The gridiron and all that part of the field within the running track will be prepared for use by first stripping off the surface to a depth of about one foot and then grading. The dirt removed in grading will be thrown over the dike in the extreme western corner of the field to obtain room for an extension of the track. After leveling and removing all dirt from the drain trenches the whole will be filled to an average death of six inches with clean...
...mile team-race men ran on the track yesterday. It is extremely unfortunate that but three days can be given to work on the track before going to New York. The tram races will be run on a dirt track, and the change from the board track, which gives a perfectly firm and solid footing, to the comparatively soft and yielding dirt track is so great that it is very hard for the men to get used to it sufficiently to run in their best form. In this particular the Harvard entries will be at a disadvantage...
...note yesterday from Dr. Francis H. Williams, secretary of the corporation of the institute, saying that the board had decided to build four courts for the use of the students. The lot behind the architectural building and adjoining the Grundmann studios will be filled in and graded and four dirt courts will be built. The work of construction will be under the supervision of Albert E. Burton of the civil engineering department. Work will begin immediately...
...tournament will be played on seven dirt courts. Prizes will be awarded the winner of the tournament and the winner of the championship match...