Word: drain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ought to be. Many men speak of this and shun them entirely after a single trial. Yet Dr. Sargent prescribes sponge bathing for many men and if his instructions are to be followed these tubs must be used. The trouble is that they are flat bottomed and do not drain well, so that much of the sediment remains in them after men have finished washing. This is particularly liable to be the case in such tubs where much water is not needed and the rather small amount used does not flow out rapidly so as to carry...
...same state of inefficiency has existed ever since they were made. It is only because it is now the season when this nuisance is most annoying; we are constantly thinking of present things and wonder how we ever endured them before. The gravel walks are so poorly graded and drained, and the flag walks so badly laid that they are all a series of puddles from end to end. The college may think that plank walks are more expensive than a proper grading and relaying of the paths. If so let them take this latter method of improvement. But this...
...typhoid fever in New Haven during the month of November, and that this implies from 40 to 60 cases of sickness. Dr. Lindsley is among those who believe the typhoid fever at Yale may be due to the proximity of the two pumps on the campus to the drain pipes. He thinks the use of the pumps should be discontinued. It is worthy of note that of twelve men rooming on the entry of Durfee, in front of which is one of the pumps, four have had symptoms of the fever...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: We should like to inquire how much the evident scarcity in supply has raised the price of the singing-books used in the daily chapel exercises? Could not some generous friend of the university be found - one whose purse would stand such a heavy drain - who would be willing to give five or ten dollars to supply the gallery of the chapel with singing-books? We would not be so bold as to ask for such a luxury as half a book for each person, but if there would be at least one singing-book for every...
...cause of Greek studies generally. It says: "College presidents will shake their heads when they read that for five months there were three or four rehearsals a week, and that for six weeks preceding the performance there was a rehearsal every day, to say nothing of the vast drain on the time and energies of the professional managers. A smaller college than Harvard would simply be broken up by it for the entire session." The Nation also expresses its wish (in considering Mr. Arthur Gilman's last report) that an adequately endowed institution may soon take the place...