Word: shower
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hand side, commencing at the rear, are the dressing room, drying room, wash room and lavatory, communicating with each other in the order named. The billiard room has space for four tables. The rowing room is fifty-two feet long and nine feet wide. The wash room contains six shower baths and two needle showers, in addition to all conveniences necessary for a well-appointed room of the kind...
...been recognized by the college authorities, there is good reason to hope that a new boat-house will soon be built. The old house, though it satisfies in a way the wants of the members of the boat club and the various crews, is still far from complete. The shower-baths, dressing-rooms, etc., are not in a good condition, as would be expected in the boat-house of Harvard University. Seeing as we do wherein the old house is lacking, we can construct the new house on a greatly improved plan. Of course the boat club is dependent entirely...
...promptness with which the gymnasium authorities responded to our suggestion that the condition of the shower-baths should be improved, leads us to hope that they will be equally prompt now, when we remind them of the worn-out condition of the balls and pins in the bowling alleys. We have heard many complaints on this account, from the men who daily seek amusement by bowling. The good balls are so few, that one must go begging at all the alleys before one can get enough to play with...
...present senior class, has certainly acted very wisely. Although these pamphlets contain little more in substance than is in the University Catalogue, yet they are likely to receive much more attention. Moreover, in the midst of the notices, papers, and so on, that schools all over the country shower upon Cambridge students, the school nearer home, which of late years has won such an excellent reputation, is unfortunately in danger of being overlooked. And yet, no Harvard man going into law, should enter any school without having first given the school of his own university most careful consideration...
...main floor are Turkish baths, sponge-baths, shower-baths, vapor-baths and a magnificent plunge-bath, which is 75 feet by 30, and 15 feet deep; it is lined with encrustic tiling, and is constantly kept supplied with fresh water; a private stair-way connects the dressing-rooms with these paths. Down stairs is a bowling alley which is very well patronized...