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Once a happy hunting ground of the Indians and the background for a Norse saga, the noble Charles maintains its dignity despite the aqueous encroachments of the University. Rising from its headwaters in the town of Hopkinton, southwest of Cambridge, the Charles follows a circuitons course for sixty-nine miles to its mouth in Boston Bay, draining along its way about 300 square miles of good Massachusetts soil. Twenty-six artificial dams scattered along the river might interest any men who contemplate an upstream journey in a canoe to Wellesley...
Hall Ulen's varsity swimmers deserted the exercise mat for their first aqueous practice yesterday, and found themselves inundated not only with water but a flood of 30 new Freshman candidates. "They don't sweat as much, but it's tough work just the same," aphorized Assistant Coach Bill Brooks, as successive six-man relays took of for 75 yard sprints...
...sufficiently composed to consult the seismograph, the investigators discovered the presence of an entirely new wave which no one had heretofore expected from even the most scrupulous of predictions. Leet christened the new wave the "hydrodynamic wave" because of its similarity to the motion of a ripple on an aqueous surface...
When the file slipped, flew up and pierced his eyeball, John Muir walked to the window while the milk-white aqueous fluid dripped out into his cupped hand...
Hissing flames and sparks were darting toward the curtain. One last aqueous missile had apparently landed on a frayed light cord, and, on drying, had caused a short circuit. No damage was reported...