Word: shower
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...marking the final step in its preparation. The heating tunnel from the power plant on Boylston Street to the Yard has also been finished, and Linden street and Holyoke Place are again open thoroughfares. Weld Hall has undergone alterations which have improved it with more modern conveniences; electric lights, shower baths, and a new plumbing system having been installed. Owing to unavoidable obstacles and delays, the Widener Memorial Library has not been progressing as rapidly as had been hoped for, but it is expected that it will be open for use some time during the present academic year...
...members during last year. The reading room is always well stocked with current magazines and papers. Another feature is the sociables given several times a year in Brattle Hall to which all the members are invited. The boys' club part of the Union has facilities for basketball and good shower baths...
...Blood Craze. His cattleship story called "Murph"--well-constructed and boldly written and vivid as it unquestionably is--is too full of perspiration and profanity and filth. Mr. Petersen's leading character has nothing distinctive about him, excepting an odor like a New England barnyard after an April shower." This sentence is more suited to a report of the Sewer Commission than to a work of literary art. Even Mr. Calvert Smith's "Nueva Andalucia," a gracefully written and brilliantly colored--though uneven--story of South America, shows a similar tendency toward the odoriferous. and in "Nueva Andalucia" the good...
...thus is completed a final step in their popularization. The rapid growth of the Senior Dormitories from a mere idca into one of Harvard's strongest traditions is due to the recognition of the fact the appeal must be not only to sentiment but to the senses. With modern shower baths came modern comfort; with electric lights comes a certain degree of luxury which removes the last reason for unwillingness to spend one year in the Yard. The CRIMSON highly commends the unselfish spirit and cooperation between the Corporation, and the Classes of 1914 and 1915 which have made possible...
Fall baseball practice closed for the University and Freshman squads with a brief session yesterday afternoon. It had been planned in case of good weather to end the season with a final nine-inning game, but a shower interfered. The final cut before the spring practice will be announced shortly...