Word: levels
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...mentioned the London Rowing Club, the Thames Rowing Club, the Kingston Rowing club, the Moulsey Boat Club, the Royal Chester Rowing Club, and the school boy clubs of Eton and Radley. The course is one mile and 550 yards in length and the water is non-tidal. The level of the water is, therefore, during the regatta unvarying and the direction of the stream is always the same...
...been made, and also opposite Longfellow Park. A speedway, for which there has been some demand, will probably run from the corner of Market street, just this side of the abattoir, across the marshes to the northwest corner of Soldiers Field. As this would be a mile drive, over level marshes, with no cross roads, it would make an excellent speedway. The Legislature has just appropriated a sum of money for the general uses of the Park Commission, and some of it will probably be used for the construction of such a road. Considerable draining and grading would be involved...
Major Higginson's gift consisted of about twenty acres of land, all on a higher level than the neighboring marsh land. It was given to the university with the hope expressed that it might be used for the present for athletic purposes, but without any reservation whatsoever, except it should be called Soldiers Field, in memory of Major Higginson's comrades in the late...
...prepared for use by first stripping off the surface to a depth of about one foot and then grading. The dirt removed in grading will be thrown over the dike in the extreme western corner of the field to obtain room for an extension of the track. After leveling and removing all dirt from the drain trenches the whole will be filled to an average death of six inches with clean gravel, and the 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...
...There is still room for improvement in watermanship, that is in the capacity for keeping the boat level and rowing in good time under all circumstances of wind and water. The time on the starboard side is better than that on the port side, or rather the level of the oars is better on the feather and the finish is more uniform. There is considerable power in the crew and during the latter part of their practice they have shown good pace both for short and for long distances...