Word: wateringly
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...Long Reach, from the vantage-ground of Grassy Corner or Ditton Meadows. Long lines of eager young gownsmen, each in the bright uniform of his college club, rush panting up the tow-path, uttering a babel of discordant but exhilarating cries of encouragement to their champions on the water. One by one the graceful craft appear in sight, the oarsmen swinging like a piece of perfect mechanism, the blades flashing in the evening sun, the coxswain anxiously calculating how closely he dare shave the awkward corner looming in the distance, and how soon he shall venture to call upon stroke...
...University Hall the devouring element, vomiting forth smoke and flame from a half dozen tar barrels, well stuffed with cannon crackers, cast a lurid glare over the spectators. Proctors rushed to the scene. The everready Cambridge fire department, represented by an aged man with a leaky bucket of water, promptly appeared and attempted to quench the conflagration. Repeated efforts, aided by a snow-shovel, at last prevailed, and only the charred remains of six once flourishing and prosperous barrels remained to mark the path of the fire-fiend. Late in the night the drowsy slumberer was awakened by the explosion...
Steamer Excelsior, plying between Washington and Norfolk, was run into by a government tug yesterday and cut down to the water's edge. No lives lost...
Overseers. Meeting at No. 70 Water street, Boston...
...adjourned meeting of the board of overseers of Harvard College will be held at No. 70 Water street, Boston, on Thursday, November 23, at 11 o'clock A. M., to act upon communications from the president and fellows, to consider the question of discipline at commencement, and of assigning scholarships to special students, and to transact any other business which may be brought before them, which could be transacted at a stated meeting...