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...large float at the boat house is now in place...
Paid by the college for repairs on the building, float and bridges, including a small annual sum paid for moving floats and bridges...
...practical force which reach their highest development in such a city as New York. On every side there is contact with that which is real and positive and pressing. That contact exercises an imperceptible but a no less substantial influence. Those who are upon the surface of the current float with the current without effort or motion for themselves. That kind of mental training which aids most the future career, frequently does not come from books or from the teaching of professional instructors. It is acquired as the child learns, from observation, intuitively. Such advantages pre-eminently exist...
...ready, the launch crossed the river and told the Harvard men to be on the line at 11.15 o'clock promptly. Harvard was delayed a few moments by the breaking of a rowing pin, which had to be repaired, but, after a short delay, pushed off from their float and paddled over to the starting line, where the Columbia crew, being just at hand, soon joined them. Beside the Goodwin, the Cecile of New London, with a party of newspaper men on board, and Harvard's steam launch, the Sixty-seven, with the crew's substitutes, coach and Vice-President...
While visions of "extra dry" float over his head...