Word: mud
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Those who have charge of the college yard, ought to see that it is fit to walk in. Most of the important walks, to be sure, are laid with boards, but there are others, and others, too, which are used very generally, where the mud is allowed full license, unprotected. Such paths as those leading from University towards the gymnasium, and especially that from the east end of Grays to Massachusetts, are very convenient, and even more muddy. If it is too late in the season to lay boards, or if lumber is unattainable, ashes form a very good substitute...
Yesterday afternoon, for the first time, the candidates for the 'varsity nine were able to play on Jarvis a short scrub game. The ground in the infield was well rolled and not very soft, but in the outfield it was very hard to play, the mud being very soft and deep...
...rain poured down in sheets on Jarvis Field yesterday afternoon and the foot ball ground was nothing but mud and water. In spite of the storm, however, there was a very encouraging attendance of the students, and the team, itself managed to put up a very respectable game...
When the four Yale and three Harvard men started on a mile run the rain was driving hard, and the men were also begrimed with mud which was splashed up from the track. There was considerable uncertainty about this race, as Ellsworth of Yale was almost an unknown quantity. He had done well last year and it was rumored that he had had much harder training this year than ever before. Nichols and Carr set a very hot pace and Nichols plowed through the mud in the fast time of 4 min., 35 4-5 sec., taking first place. Ellsworth...
...freshman nine has been playing for several afternoons on one of the diamonds in Norton's Field. The mud is as bad there as it was on Jarvis a week ago, so it is difficult to judge as yet what the team can do. The playing yesterday was very much like that of other freshman nines on their first few days in the field. The teams were made up as follows...