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...wishes to reach the fields by this path walks on the grass by the side, and will soon tramp it down so that next spring the appearance of that part of the grounds will be careless and unfelt. We cannot blame the students for preferring soft grass to dusty gravel walks. The college authorities should have the paths watered and rolled so as to be fit for use and in this way prevent the passers-by from wearing down the grass...
...should be. A new backstop had been built during the day. It is of the most approved pattern, slightly curved and made of matched boards. The paths for the base runners will be laid out as soon as the space for the pitcher and catcher is cleared, the gravel being put on after the grass is removed...
...stand the extremes to which our manufacture is exposed and adapted. A ball will have one bound with the thermometer at 40 degrees, and another with it at 90 degrees. We have now adopted Ayres' plan of under-stitching, and our balls will not cut and tear on gravel...
March 28, 1884, to Harvard College, for gravel...
...characteristic of an intensely democratic community all the pomp and show which might mark such an occasion in any of the effete despotisms of a foreign civilization, was yesterday heroically dispensed with at Harvard. With tense brows and studious, downcast look. professors and students could be seen pacing the gravel-strewn walks of the yard, intent no doubt in recalling the glorious deeds of the father of his country, first in peace, first in war, and first in the hearts of his countrymen. How much better is such an observance of the day than the maddening pomp and wild holiday...