Word: hot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Circular, is ranged against the walls on the four sides of the room, and a variety of apparatus such as is usually found in gymnasiums has also been provided. In the dressing rooms a large number of private lockers are placed, besides bath tubs and set bowls supplied with hot and cold water. The gymnasium is a place for "body-building" and a place for recreation. It will be administered as far as possible in accordance with the plan followed by Dr. Sargent (in the Hemenway Gymnasium of Harvard University). The purpose is to give to each individual guidance...
...very small that their contents can but be in utter confusion. One student has helped matters by placing a shelf across the upper part of his locker, to hold his sponge, brush and comb, etc. The shelf is of wire netting, which allows a free circulation of the hot air. The expense of fitting all the lockers with such a shelf would be only a few cents each; in view of the great convenience resulting, it would seem that the authorities ought...
Notice is given that there will be no hot or cold water at the gymnasium on Friday and Saturday of this week. An attempt will be made to increase the heating capacity of the boiler so as to render it capable of heating water quickly enough to meet the demand made upon it between five and six o'clock in the afternoon. To effect this it will be necessary to turn off the water for the time stated above...
...desire to call attention to an editorial which recently appeared in the Advocate in regard to the unsatisfactory arrangements for hot and cold water in the shower bath at the gymnasium. From time to time complaints of this nature have been made but hitherto with no result. As the shower bath is so constantly in demand, any trouble in its arrangements for using the water must necessarily annoy a large number of students. We hope the authorities at the gymnasium will turn their attention to these complaints and endeavor to remedy the trouble as soon as possible...
...youth. In a team selected purely for physical merit, there are sure to be one or two men who are insensible to the finer instincts which govern a gentleman's conduct. And the example set by them is only too apt to be followed, in the excitement of a hot game, by others who would, if left to themselves, be incapable of such behavior. No, there must be some rules of conduct, and the question is, what rules can we make to secure the desired end, namely, a gentlemanly game. The recent game in New York has shown how inadequate...