Word: gravel
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Saturday, Nov. 9. Professor W. M. Davis. The Terminal Moraine of Southern Rhode Island. This moraine is a portion of one of the great terminal moraines that was formed near the margin of the ice-covered area of the last glacial epoch. It consists of a belt of irregular gravel hills, extending about twenty miles from near Narragansett Pier to Watch Hill, averaging a mile in breadth, and fifty to a hundred feet in local relief. On the northern side, the moraine blocks the streams that descend from the interior, thus forming lakes and swamps, whose united overflow...
...Harvard Lawn Tennis Association announces an Interscholastic Tennis Tournament, open to all members of college preparatory schools. The tournament will be held on the college courts (gravel) at Cambridge on Saturday, May 2, 1891. In case of storm, the tournament will take place on the first pleasant Saturday after that date. Matches, best two sets in three, will begin at ten o'clock. A championship cup will be awarded to the school winning the greatest number of matches. A championship prize will be given to the winner of the tournament, and a Horace Partridge best racket to the runner...
...opposite of the building, and with a like situation and dimensions is the base ball cage. At present the floor, which is made of fine gravel and mud, is solf and wet as it is being put into good order. The cage is well lighted and admirably adapted for the use of the nine...
...fast being completed, and it is gratifying to know how many men even now visit the grounds. With the present force of fifty men, the field will be finished about the middle of next month. At present they are digging trenches all over the 20 acres, in which the gravel from the now levelled banks is put, while the loam thus thrown up is spread 10 inches thick over the entire surface. The dike is being strengthened against the tide; and the few remaining acres beyond will be gradually filled by college refuse. A few trees have been left, thus...
...mounds is the Turner group which contains the famous Large Mound. This is made very carefully and of many kinds of material, the foundation being a circle of stone one hundred feet in diameter, firled in with burnt clay, over which is a layer of mixed iron and gravel packed into a solid mass like concrete. This gravel made a floor for the support of two altars. That the mound was used exclusively for religious rites is certain from the fact that after some great religious festival in which thousands of treasures of all kinds were heaped on the fire...