Word: mud
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...longer than the "John Harvard," but appears much larger owing to its greater breadth and higher freeboard. It draws less water than the "John Harvard" and is not so high, two very important attributes on a river like the Charles, where there are so many mud flats and where so many of the bridges are too low to pass under at high tide. It was used yesterday afternoon and proved much faster than the "John Harvard." It has a maximum speed of about fifteen and one-half knots an hour and will hold from twenty to thirty people...
...undoubtedly have enabled Andover to score again, and by kicking a goal to win the game. As it was, Exeter took a brace just in time and managed to hold their opponents. Any other game but football would have been postponed, for the field was literally a mass of mud...
...examination it has been found that these drains serve their purpose well in some parts of the field and poorly in others. This is due to the fact that the soil of a portion of the field, particularly in the middle of the old gridiron, is largely clay and mud, through which the water does not drain easily...
...seen in cross section to be broken up into coarse fragments, now united by a sandy cement which is continuous with the sandstone below, and passes into a volcanic cement above, showing "where the slaggy surface of the flow was under rolled on a muddy bottom and the mud was forced up into the fissures," meeting in the cracks the still liquid lava from above...
...students do not attack the matter in a business-like or compelling manner. A generation ago when the graduates wanted anything, they made themselves heard on the matter and advanced their demands in a body in the form of petitions, which were usually granted. The condition of our (mud) walks we declare abominable and possible of easy cure; the courses in English literature, IX, VII. and others which masquerade under the name "half" course, are preposterous; a chair in Russian Literature we should all very much like to see here at Harvard. Yet it must be admitted that on these...