Word: plank
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Every student will be expected to provide himself with the costume mentioned above, a patent gymnastic belt, a cake of perfumed soap, a flannel bathing-suit with shoes, and a copy of the Harvard Recorder.1 Students must leave their shoes at the plank walk, and put on white felt slippers; no slippers can be used except those sold at the Gymnasium at the moderate price of $8.00 a pair...
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...enough; but on grounds of health alone, not to mention the cheerfulness and comfort that an open fire affords, we should much regret to see our grates done away with. Heating the entries must not be expected, we fear, before all the buildings have fire-escapes, before there are plank walks in the Yard, and until there is some way of getting to Boston in less than half an hour. Unless open fires and stoves were entirely done away with, - which is not proposed, - it is difficult to see how the risk of fire would be materially diminished...