Word: plight
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...number of years. At present a student whose home is not near Cambridge, if taken ill, has either to stay in his room or go to the Cambridge Hospital. A great many students can ill afford to go to the Hospital during a long sickness. But the plight of one who is ill in his own room is no better. It is hard to get proper attention and nursing and impossible to get nourishing and appetizing food...
...year we called attention to the sorry state of affairs caused by the delay in the completion of the gymnasium. It is a disgrace to the University that the thousand or more students who have always been dependent upon the Gymnasium for bathing accommodations should be left in this plight when partial relief could be afforded by throwing open the Carey Building. We believe that the Athletic Association could not refuse the use of the building for bathing purposes if the University would provide an engineer to look after the boilers. To be sure, the University is not responsible...
Until the completion of the Hemenway Gymnasium, the College would seem to be in a sorry plight as far as bathing facilities are concerned. In most of the dormitories there are no baths at all, and in none of them are there baths to spare: there must be hundreds of students who will find that passion for cleanliness, which seems characteristic of the Harvard undergraduate, ungratified. It does not seem quite fair that the College should bring students here and then leave them without the means to an end so important that it has been next to godliness...
...Yale on Thanksgiving Day. The future football prospects of the college depend on the outcome of the struggle. Defeated, they will see all their former prestige slip away, while if they win they will strengthen their position with the football public, but will put the association in a queer plight. Providing Princeton defeats Yale and Pennsylvania vanquishes Wesleyan, the standing of the colleges would be as follows...