Word: wateringly
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...tank has been sufficiently demonstrated by the success of the Yale crews of the past two years. Thanks are due to the college authorities for their kind permission to allow the old gymnasium to be used. The crew this year will have at least two months more on the water than they would have under ordinary circumstances...
...ungrateful for me, after the yard authorities' kind compliance with the wishes of the college last year, to suggest that they extend their beneficence to the further laying of plank walks from the Chapel to the Library and from the front of University to Holworthy? Day before yesterday water had collected in the path to the Library to an average depth of not less than three nor more than six inches. As to the flagging in front of Thayer, we all know that it was submerged during every storm of last year, while there has been no visible improvement...
...story that has been printed in New York that Yale has challenged the Cambridge, England, crew to an eight-oared race this coming summer, is denied by the management of the Yale crew. The Yale men think favorably of such a race and would undoubtedly cross the water if suitable arrangements could be made. Last year Mr. Oelrichs of New York offered to send the Yale crew to England, but owing to the fact that the English crew had stopped training, the race fell through...
...firemen, acting under the directions of President Eliot. The furniture and books in room 11 were badly scorched and wet. The chief sufferer, however, was Mr. G. W. Sawin who occupies the room below. His carpet, furniture and library, including many valuable books, were ruined by the smoke and water. The loss is difficult to estimate but will be in all over a thousand dollars...
...part of the work of the expedition will be the examination of the exact facts in regard to climate and atmospheric clearness, facilities for work and transportation, communications, etc., to be found in Peru. The country is barren in the extreme and the fact that wood and water is scarce may interfere with the construction of a permanent observatory, but the rainless conditions are favorable as they give assurance that the interruptions of work from causes which are here so common will not occur, and as the station will be placed well up on the mountain side the observers will...