Word: wateringly
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...Yale sophomore crew was on the water last week...
...health resort in England they steep sea weed for an hour in boiling water, and then cooling the water slightly, admit the bather, who remains in twenty minutes, and comes out, it is alleged, greatly strengthened and refreshed. This might be an advantageous improvement over the present method of rubbing down weary athletes with whiskey...
...This year they have been still further crippled by the loss of two more men, Russel and Remington; but in spite of this they have gone to work in a most praiseworthy manner, getting out all their powerful men, and straining every nerve to put a crew on the water this spring which shall repeat last year's triumphs, and enable them to retain the reputation they won last year during the rest of their college course. Besides the first crew, eighty-seven has such a plethora of candidates that she is enabled to keep an entire second crew...
...Cornell crew was on the water for the first time this year on Monday...
...said, was never old and never would be. Its history was rapidly reviewed and the leading part its students had taken in all great National movements. At its close, Rev. Thomas Van Ness made some humorous remarks on the various characteristics of Harvard, ironically referring to those 'fresh water colleges' which did not enjoy the advantages of an old and heavily-endowed school. This brought out a bright reply from Judge Wilbur F. Stone, to the effect that most of the statesmen and men of affairs had come from interior colleges. Other speeches taking up the general line of thought...