Word: shower
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Students who make use of the Gymnasium shower-baths are obliged at present to furnish their own towels. This means that clean towels must be carried to the Gymnasium, and later removed for the purpose of being laundered. The system at many other colleges is better. At Yale, notably, there is an arrangement which might well be instituted here. Towels are rented at the gymnasium office. For twenty-five cents a man receives ten coupons, each entitling him to a towel. Used towels are collected and sent to the laundry by the man in charge. The price of laundering...
Steam heat, closet space, telephones, and electric lights, although convenient, are not vital; but bathing and toilet facilities have come to be considered a necessity. Water, and plenty of it, is essential. Tubs with every room are not necessary, but there should be shower baths on every floor. Hollis and Stoughton are adequately equipped in this respect: there are set bowls with running water in every room, and showers on every floor of each entry. Only two-thirds of the rooms in Holworthy are equipped with running water, and there are only two showers in each entry. These conditions should...
...which it deserves, is for every man to apply for a Yard room, and not to criticise and cause scepticism. The system has been inaugurated for the good of the class, and not in order that some few individuals might have the best chance for the room nearest the shower...
...Hollis, the prices ranging from $115 to $170. These rooms are large double rooms, with hot and cold water and steam heat. In Stoughton there are 29 rooms to be allotted and the prices and equipment are the same as in Hollis: In all three buildings there are shower baths on each floor...