Word: bathing
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...Jones '62" the author ingeniously uses the machinery of the old Christmas story as made famous by Dickens; the scene is Class Day and the mysterious visitants are Jones and Smith of '62, wraiths who return for the edification of Wolcott and Randolph, who have deserted the bath-tubs of the Gold Coast for the traditions of Holworthy. The story is well told, save that the writer has not learned the lesson of literary temperance in keeping for another occasion lines undoubtedly clever but out of place in their present use. Jones is made to win the Victoria Cross...
...handsome Andrew Jackson, in long raincoat and soft hat, striding along with the familiar swing, and flinging across the way the brusque greeting, "How d'ye, neighbor?" The College Chapel will miss him, whither he used to repair daily to take what he liked to call his "moral bath, as needful, sir, as the other." He was the impersonation of health, vigor, and purity, moral as well as physical and intellectual. He was an Elizabethan man in his qualities and temperament: a poet, above all, of keen susceptibilities and sympathies; gifted, furthermore, with a remarkable creative power in English expression...
Harper's--"A Fortnight in Bath," and "Editor's Easy Chair," by W. d. Howells...
...recognized place for all University mass meetings. It numbers among its other advantages an interesting and well-selected library of about six thousand volumes, a ladies restaurant, meeting rooms for University organizations, billiard, game, periodical and writing rooms, and accommodations for guests. There are, besides, telephones, toilet and bath rooms, lockers, bicycle racks, etc. In short, the Union has all the advantages of a well-appointed club...
...recognized place for nearly all of the University mass meetings, and among its other advantages includes a library of about six thousand volumes, a ladies restaurant, meeting-rooms for University organizations, billiard, game, periodical and writing rooms, and accommodations for guests. There are, besides, telephones, toilet and bath rooms, lockers, bicycle racks...