Word: layers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...gridiron, which promises to be most satisfactory. After laying out the gridiron and the diamond, room was found to lay off three practice fields for this fall, so that ample room is afforded for developing the various football teams. The track is completed, with the exception of the top layer. This will not be put on till next spring in order that the layers already on may have time to settle...
...field to obtain room for an extension of the track. After leveling and removing all dirt from the drain trenches the whole will be filled to an average death of six inches with clean gravel, and the surface loam will then be replaced, covering the gravel with a layer of some ten inches. The gridiron will be sodded some time in August and will probably be quite ready for use in October. The diamond will be located on the southern corner of the field, where the soil is well drained and the surface nearly level, so that very little work...
...running track it is proposed to have a foundation of 18 inches of heavy stone. Over this a layer of finer crushed stone will be placed, and the whole will receive the usual cinder covering. The practice fields will be rolled and graded somewhat, but not much work will be done until the necessity for it appears, since the only really damp portion of the field is, as we have seen, that area near the middle portion of the old gridiron which was usually too slippery for satisfactory work. The whole field will ultimately be surrounded with trees, and when...
...about the fire-places were rarely gnawed by animals. Another important discovery was that of the extinct peccary, which has been found also in Hartman's cave, and of teeth of the tapir. The nature of the human remains and the fact that they are found only in one layer, prove that the Indians lived in the cave, and that they had no predecessors in these regions...
Professor Marsh delivered a lecture before a very fair audience in Sever 11 last evening on Provencal Poetry. Provence, he said, had received layer on layer of culture from previous civilizations, and in it the tradition of refinement was never lost and its impression would not long be stifled...