Word: wateringly
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...Museum of Comparative Zoology will soon welcome back its head, Alexander Agassiz, from his trip to India. Prof. Agassiz has lately been examining the great aquarium at Naples with a view to the introduction of water into the laboratories of the museum, the new wing of which was built with his own money mostly, and on plans providing for an aquarium. Professor Agassiz's outlay from his own fortune on this institution has not been less than...
...never to be weary of expatiating on the enexhaustible theme which furnishes material for numberless communications and editorials in the different college papers. Yet all this agitation is of no avail. In times of deluge like that of Monday the stone walk still remains below the surface of the water, and during every rain its hollows still collect puddles of water into which the unwary student plunges. The only remedy for this evil is to raise the flagstones a few inches and to give them a very slight slope so that the water may run off and not collect...
...accomplishing the desired result. It is, instead of tearing the tubs to pieces and resetting them satisfactorily, to place in the bottom of each of the tubs as they stand at present a thin slab of soapstone thicker at one end than at the other. This would carry the water off properly and would not cost more than can be afforded...
Overseers. Special meeting at No. 70 Water street, Boston...
Complaint is made that the supply of hot water at the gymnasium is insufficient...