Word: wateringly
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...water runs in them, dear...
...well known fact that the German universities have a strong tendency towards republicanism which if allowed to grow would soon assume formidable proportions. We can, therefore, congratulate ourselves that in some respects at least we have a decided advantage over our less fortunate fellow-students across the water, in the attitude of our students towards politics and in the settled and enlightened form of our government...
...clip the following from the American Aquatic Magazine: "What grander sight for a man to look upon can one enjoy than two fours or eights; the crews in proper form and well trained; rowing in time, with proper reach and grip; a clean pull through the water, feather without ripple; and, above all, good execution, or the knowledge of just when to apply the power while the blade of the oar is in the water. We cannot better illustrate this than by referring to the Yale crew of 1883. A more magnificent body of men physically never...
...this cry, though not to the words, that we at Harvard should take most emphatic exception. We deny the statement that our colleges should be influenced in any but a negative direction by the popular opinion which assails them. This doctrine may do very well for the "fresh-water" and second-rate colleges, whose only object is to cause a steady stream of gold dollars to flow into the pockets of their managers, but it will not do for a college like Harvard, which aspires to be the first university in the land. The duty of a true university...
From the cloisters out over a small stone bridge are the water walks and spacious grounds of the college, and nothing could be more charming than the long vista of elms on either side and the little stream. This was the poet Addison's favorite path and it is called after him "Addison's Walk." The broad green meadows stretch out on each side, where the deer are seen grazing in the shade of the old beeches whose boughs have and will shelter generations of noisy rooks...