Word: gravel
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...march of time has outstripped the old tradition of Commons. Where the old boys sauntered casually along gravel paths, the undergraduate today dashes with determination from Sever to New Lecture Hall and to Leavitt and Peirce's windows. The Harvard men of Memorial's hey-day dined leisurely, and aided eloquence with loquacious draughts, but a schedule, measured by the unfailing Ingersoll, now limits his gustatorial pleasures to a few snatched moments, while the slogan "coffee or milk" is impotent to stimulate good fellowship. At present, the press of engagements has destroyed inclination as the motivator...
...clean the class rooms seem to have gone on a sympathetic and perpetual strike with the goodies who are supposed to clean the studies. But if the dirt were carried, out of the buildings, it would only add to the swirling clouds of dust which arise from the untidy gravel walks. All this the student can endure with an occasional grumble but when the air with in these buildings becomes bad, then both his nature and reason rebel...
...squad of half a dozen men were busy all yesterday afternoon putting up the nets and rolling the courts. The new courts are surfaced with clay, and when once they have been rolled hard. Mr. Enright expects that they will afford a better playing surface than the 16 old gravel courts...
...movement of automobile parts and materials, as well as of cement, clay, gravel, sand, has increased...
...counsel for the complainant asked first for a restrictive decree to stop the Blanque Mining Company in the state of Ames from operations which would allow sand and gravel used in their plant to be desposited on the complainants land in the state of Langdell. Secondly, they asked a mandatory injunction ordering the mining company to remove the sand and gravel already so deposited...