Word: clay
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University track games, which were to have been held on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon were postponed until today on account of the rain, which made the track very heavy and the clay take-offs too soft. The games, however, will take place this afternoon at 4 o'clock, regardless of the weather. In the trial heats of the track events only the first and second men will qualify for the finals...
...intercollegiate shoot will take place at New Haven on May 3 or 10 to be decided later. Yale, Harvard, Princeton and Pennsylvania will be represented by teams of five men each. Each man will shoot at fifty clay birds, five in a series, at unknown angles on the rapid fire system. To prepare for the shoot, practice matches for Harvard have been arranged with B. A. A., Brockton, Lyndhurst, Birchbrook, Middlesex and Boston Gun Clubs...
...candidates for the track team began work on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. The cinder track was in very good condition considering the time of year, and all men were sent from two to four laps at a brisk jog. No pole vaulting or jumping was attempted, because the clay take-offs are still too soft. Mr. Graham was out for the first time since his illness and gave the men their instructions. The character of the work for the next week will be varied so that when the track and take-offs become hard the men will be in good...
Situated in Hamilton County, about thirty miles from Cincinnati, these mounds were discovered by two Harvard men, Professors Turner and Putnam. The work of exploring them was tedious, and often the workmen fell into pitfalls, lightly covered with crusts of clay. As the work progressed, however, they made many interesting discoveries. In some of the mounds, altars with skeletons and implements of prehistoric ages were found. Battle-axes, bracelets, knives, the things which were most valued during life, all these were placed by their side when they were buried; on one altar as many as sixty thousand beads were found...
Review of Reviews: "Burnt Clay for Roads in the West," by C. R. Keyes...