Word: peat
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cinders to the depth of an inch has been put on the track, and it will be two or three days before it will be in condition for running, and probably a fortnight before bicyclists can venture on it. Prof. Shaler says that Holmes Field was formerly a peat bog, which accounts for its extreme slowness in drying up in the spring. The Tennis Association has already begun laying out the new courts. The ground back of the Law School building has been broken for the clay courts. Occasionally during the vacation men have been playing tennis on Jarvis...
...university may grow, the north-east corner of Holmes field is safe from any encroachment for building purposes. Every one has noticed the muddy character of the soil there, but probably few have known the reason of it. That corner of the ground is, in fact, a rich peat-field, and if worked would doubtless yield no small returns. This fact, however, renders it unfit for holding the foundations of a building, so that athletics if finally, in the coming centuries, pinned down to that section, will be sure of one safe refuge from the advances of the mason...