Word: gravel
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...presented to the Peabody Museum, specimens from the most famous European prehistoric sites, which form a valuable addition to the museum's collection. He made personal collections of flint chips and fragments from the "eolithic" sites of Otta, Portugal, and of Mons, Belgium--fragments that have lain in the gravel banks for ages, and which may represent the work of intelligent beings of the first quaternary, or even tertiary, epochs...
...condition of the grass along the walks and driveways. There seems to be an unaccountable desire among students in the early spring, at just the time when every chance for growth should be given young grass, to walk along the edges of the paths instead of the gravel which is placed there for the purpose, thus crushing out what vestige of life there is in the grass before it gets a start...
Another habit which should be frowned upon is that of starting short-cuts in places where a new path is not really needed, as for example, behind Memorial Hall or at one side of Pierce Hall. In the end a gravel path must be put down in all such places,--a procedure which if allowed to go much further will result in a network of pathways so confused as to take away entirely the effect of a stretch of green lawn. Since the trouble comes from thoughtlessness it is only necessary to remember that by exercising a little care...
...space beneath the seats will contain, in addition to the stairways, three series of supporting columns. The ground in this part will probably be covered with fine gravel...
...theft. The present professor will probably turn them over to the Museum. Important work among the Indians has been done by Miss Alice C. Fletcher, who studied the of the Pawnees, in Oklahoma, and by Dr. Frans Russell, in Arizona. Professor Putnam visited California and collected specimens of gravel in the region or where the famous Calaveras skull was found in order to decided the disputed question of its precise source and age by comparing these gravel with the gravel take from the skull...