Word: sande
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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Saturday was given to excursions in charge of Dr. Gregory. The morning was spent in examining West Rock, where the party found splendid exposures of the intrusive contact of a huge lava sheet with the Triasaic sand-stones. In the afternoon the party, including Professors Williams, Beecher and Pearson of Yale, took the train to Meriden, passing the escarpment of the hanging hills on the way, and going on to the large quarries in the lava beds north of the city. From there the party went along the great fault line where the displacement measures about 2,000 feet...
...fact that it is only a short time from a geological point of view since an ice-cap existed over all this region. Traces of it are too plain to be for a moment doubted. When the ice-sheet receded northward, the streams which came from under it deposited sand in great quantities as they approached the sea. These rivers flowed through ice arches under the glaciers; and remnants of them can still be seen in the low curving hills in some parts of the state. At the same time, it is worth remembering that we have near...
...have been drawn with the idea of making the building harmonize with its surroundings, instead of being in itself a striking example of up-to-date architecture. The exterior gives an imposing yet simple colonial effect. It will be built of dark red brick with trimmings of buff Indiana sand stone, to correspond with the style of the old buildings in the Yard...
...cage at Soldiers Field, with gymnasium work for the benefit of inexperienced candidates. About the middle of March regular practice will begin in the field, when several teams will be formed to play against one another. It is expected that R. H. E. Starr '96, H. A. L. Sand '95, and Captain Curry, of the Crescent team, will assist in coaching. The team this year has excellent prospects. A number of former members are eligible, and in the fall practice nearly fifty men came out. The fall practice of six weeks taught these new men the rudiments of the game...