Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...swelter here in dirt and in wretchedness when the pure delights of the Turkish bath await us in the adjoining city? How great is the advance of American civilization when the choicest luxury of the pampered Oriental is brought to our very doors! The other day, after groaning for three hours over a tough annual, I was struck with an unusually brilliant idea: I would take a Turkish bath and come out an altered...
...these rules proves that they are needed. We know that boys and girls find ways of circumventing their teachers; does any one suppose that young men and women do not? To us it seems that, if women come to Harvard, the true policy of the College will be teaching, pure and simple, without any laws to control the students outside the class-room. Then it will be expedient that the dormitory system shall be entirely abolished, and instead students will room and board at private houses, as they do in German university towns. If so radical a change as this...