Word: bathing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...building is peculiarly adapted to the needs of the club, having in addition to the two racquet courts, a gymnasium, which is fairly well equipped, Turkish bath, shower baths, two bowling alleys, billiard, fencing and boxing rooms, and a running track. There are also other rooms which may be used for lounging and reading, while the facilities for a restaurant and kitchen are sufficient to meet the demands of the club for the present. It is especially stated, however, that it is designed to make this a vigorous athletic association and not a rival among purely social clubs...
...roof, and will occupy the site of the present club house, which will be moved to one side. The interior will be finished plainly in wood. It will contain three large dressing-rooms and 400 lockers. Special attention will be given to the plumbing. There will be two large bath-rooms, three or four showers, and several closets. It is the aim of the committee to have the building convenient and practical rather than ornamental. If the weather permits, it will be ready for occupancy by May 1st. The cost will...
...Grays, middle entry.TO BE LET. - A room in Quincy Hall, Hot and cold water, shower bath, etc. The young man has been obliged to leave college and will let the room at a very low rate. Enquire of the janitor...
...knack of some simple little thing without help or direction. The unvaried dose of chest weights prescribed soon grows distasteful, and the new man finally either stays away from the gymnasium altogether or appears perhaps once a week from a sense of duty or the need of a bath...
...Adams is evidently a great admirer of Miss Austen, and, while at times he allows this heroic-worship to color some of his accounts, his story of her life is, in general, correct and readable. He tells of her "childhood at Steventon," her "first visit to Bath," her "removal to Bath," her enjoyment of society there, and a thousand and one things which are or interest to the admirers of Miss Austen. Mr. Adams spent the summer of 1889 in visiting all the localities once familiar to Jane Austen and the descriptions of Bath, Steventon, Chamton, and other places...