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...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...
...does not some enterprising student collect subscriptions in Hastings hall to fix the sidewalk in front of the gymnasium which leads to North avenue? If the men in the hall would subscribe fifty cents apiece, they could get a few loads of gravel put on the walk to relieve in a large measure its exquisite muddiness...
...donor has built a track which, as far as advantages go, will put Williams on an equal footing with her rivals. The track is oblong in shape, fifteen feet wide and a sixth of a mile in circuit. It is very carefully underdrained and is composed of pin gravel covered to a depth of nine inches with cinders. The track is so arranged that the finish of the races will be opposite the grand stand which is also just back of the catcher's position in base ball. The upper end of the field has been cut down so that...
...which has on account of the lateness of the season been postponed until next spring. The car tracks have been placed in position on the Boston-half of the bridge, and will be extended when the planking is all laid. The Cambridge approach is being filled in with gravel as rapidly as possible, and as soon as this is finished light travel will probably be allowed over, the bridge. The dedication of the structure will not take place before next spring...
...spring tournament of the Harvard Lawn Tennis Association will commence Tuesday, May 21st, at 10 o'clock on the gravel courts on Holmes and Jarvis. Entriees can be made at Bartlett's until 8 o'clock Monday evening. Entrance fees: singles, $1.00; doubles, $1.50. Messrs. Tailer and Snow will be barred in the doubles and Mr. P. S. Sears in singles. They will play exhibition matches with the winners. Drawings will be made by the Bagnall-Wilde method...