Word: bath
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very pleasant suite of furnished rooms, with bath-room, hot and cold water on the same floor. Two minutes walk from Sever Hall. Price, $200 for the term. Heat, light, care etc., included. Apply to Picture Store, Harvard Square...
...basement will contain the bath rooms, dressing-rooms, the hydraulic machines, bowling alleys, sleeping apartments for the janitor, and a large swimming tank, in dimensions forty-seven by twenty-four feet. There is also room on this floor for about two hundred and fifty lockers, in the event of their being needed...
...more points in regard to our future swimming-bath may be of interest to the college. Some time ago a friend of the university made a generous contribution toward the building of this bath. Thereupon the college authorities placed in the hands of a contractor the matter of investigating the water supply which could be obtained for the baths. The result of this investigation was the boring of the wells which we have been watching from day to day near the gymnasium. It was found that abundant water could be had from these wells for the purpose. That the bath...
Several complaints have been made by the students in regard to the bath rooms in the gymnasium. It is of course necessary that the attendants have an occasional holiday, and it is also eminently proper that the gymnasium itself be closed on Sunday. But could not the washing facilities be so regulated that students could make use of them on Saturday evenings. We suggest this change at the earnest request of many students, and hope to see it made at once, if practicable...
With regard to the care of the person, bathing is a matter of the greatest importance. A sponge bath daily, either cold or tepid, may be considered as a necessity. Hot baths every day are extremely debilitating and otherwise injurious. The clothing should be adapted to the person, one in the open air much, requiring less than an individual of sedentary habits. The tendency is to wear too much clothing. We are much better off than our grandfathers in the matter of fabrics adapted to changes in weather. Gauzes and light-woolens take the place of stiff linen and cotton...