Word: dust
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...renovated and properly lighted. The air is always close and foul. This could be remedied by putting in a modern ventilating system, or at least opening the windows every night. Then the lockers are filthy. Clothes left in them untouched for a month or so, will be covered with dust...
...doubters, their attitude will be completely changed by a visit to the present building. Aside from the lager defects in ventilation and room, there are many smaller ones which are just as objectionable. Apparently the mats are seldom if ever cleaned, for they are usually covered with dust. The shower baths have long ago outgrown their usefulness, and are absolutely inadequate when there are any number of men wishing to use them. In the bottoms of many of the lockers the dust of ages has accumulated. Many of the machines for pulling weights are out of order, there...
...charge of the competition were determined to gain something besides experience from their efforts, and accordingly chose five contributions by the elimination process, retaining these five as there was so little to choose between them. Such a situation is unwarranted for the old songs are still available and the dust is not so thick on them that they will not be rendered with hearty enthusiasm...
...lockers are crowded into unventilated galleries, where the windows are unopened and unopenable. Where athletic clothes are piled after each day's exercise, there is no attempt at fumigation, or even thorough cleaning, and the dust of months is allowed to accumulate. In the Gymnasium proper, in the looker rooms, in the baths, the air is foul. Small wonder that we learn of cases of eczema among the men who use the lockers...
...muckers stopped their yap, the aesthetic authors vanished to their--verse, the fire-crackers were put under the bench. The lead was never overcome, the CRIMSON's star twirler toyed with the heart-sick jokers, and our much-beloved, versatile, admiring, fellow-slingers of the ink bit the dust...