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Medical authorities assert that to a fatigued, nervous, jumpy system a warm shower before retiring has a relaxing, beneficial effect. More particularly, Dr. Means, medical adviser to the University, has observed many such jumpy personalities about Harvard. Moreover, a warm shower at night is a harmless and often welcome form of relaxation even to the not-so-jumpy members of society...
Throughout the year hot water has been provided in yard dormitories in very conservative doses so conservative that many shower enthusiasts have been lead to believe that the hot water tap has utterly no significance other than has an interior decorating device achieving that balanced effect so necessary to the correct bathroom...
...water, after ten in the evening appears and disappears apparently at will. Anyone inclined to shower as late as ten-thirty does so at his own risk. A turn of the hot water tap, even when accompanied with prayers, is fully as likely to bring on acute pneumonia as steam. It is this uncertainly lurking in the plumbing which is the prime cause for discontent so manifest among even the most select of shower-room circles...
Work will soon begin on a construction which will roof over two thirds of the cellar of the old locker building, which was destroyed by fire January 15, according to an announcement made last night at the H. A. A. This structure will house locker, toilet, and shower facilities for the lacrosse, baseball, and spring football teams...
Even with two firemen and a reserve boiler-full of hot water it is doubted by Harvard Athletic Association officials if enough water can be supplied to provide each athlete with a three-minute shower. If it proves impossible to do this the difficulty has already been overcome, for it is planned to post a man amongst the bathers whose duty will be to see that no one stays in longer than the maximum limit of half a minute...