Word: soils
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Liberty and Free Soil Parties in the Northwest. By T. C. Smith '92, Ph.D., instructor in the University of Michigan...
...Dutch for the possession of the Cape. With the emancipation of the slaves in 1830, new friction arose, and the great migration of the Boers from Cape Colony to the northeast began. The Boers claimed independence from England, but the latter power proclaimed all the Boers' territory English soil up to the Vaal River. This action on the part of England drove many of the Boer farmers to cross the Vaal, where they set up a government for themselves, England consenting at the Sand River Convention, held in 1852. The next advance movement of the English came in 1877, when...
...Experience in the civil war demonstrated that homesickness is not a disorder belonging to the nursery age. Hundreds of strong men were so oppressed with it that the slightest indisposition often developed alarming symptoms, and the patient pined and died without any apparent cause. This was on our won soil when the war was but a few hours' ride from the home of the average soldier, and where the surroundings were civilized...
...river. At the mouth of the main drain a valve was placed to keep out the tide. On 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...
...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 will be required to get ready for baseball. The exact direction in which the diamond will face is undecided, as it is important to keep the sun as far as possible from being in the catcher...