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...building is to be four stories in height, the same as Massachusetts Hall. Fifty-eight students will be accommodated, in suites consisting of two bedrooms, a study, and private bath, except in two cases where the suites will be for single students. The plan of the suites and the interior finish will resemble that in Lionel and Mower Halls, while the exterior will resemble Hollis. The new dormitory will, however, be more than twice as long and considerably narrower, the dimensions being 30 feet...
...There Was the Luxury of a Bath...
...remember the living conditions in our time? Unless you were a malefactor of great wealth, living in Claverly or Beck, or took your turn in standing under a faucet in teh gymnasium, there was no chance to bathe. Our classmate, Flandrau, says somewhere in his 'Diary of a Freshman' that a daily bath should be an innocent pleasure, not a morbid family pride. It was not either of these for most of us--it was an unattainable luxury...
Accommodations for 150 men will be provided in suites ranging from single bedroom, bath, and study to six bedrooms, bath, and study; the average suite will accommodate two men. The suites will be arranged on the "entry" plan without public corridors...
...city agreed with Mr. Fippany, too. Long a jaunty gambler, he pulled his hat devilishly over one brown eye and drove about the city, his two mules and a string of ravishing bells marking him for no ordinary junk dealer. He compassed a great coup with 317 second-hand bath-tubs, became a wholesale bargain man with a Long Island City warehouse, and his slogan was known to all the city: "Fippany for Any Old Thing...