Word: gravell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...found, however, that the cage could not be built there. At the desired spot the gravel covering the ground is 25 feet deep, making it impractical to build a large structure on it. There was also considerable opposition to putting the cage so far from the Locker Building...
...Mass, capitalists decided to build a hotel, announced that on the roof of the business building next their site they, would construct "the world's most unusual roof garden." Loam four inches deep will cover the roof. In the middle will stand a fountain. All around will spread gravel walks, flower beds, grass plots. At night, the garden will be lighted by imitation park-lanterns; in the winter it will be kept at a heat proper for flowers and grass. Tables will be spread the year round. Guests of the hotel may enjoy fountain, flowers, lights, upon the payment...
...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...