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...only is it to be deplored from that point of view, however, but the habit is an annoying one to the student body itself. The danger of an artificial rain shower is one which evokes signs of temper rather than of risibility. As humor it dates from the Mesozoic era, or at best from the Post-Pliocene. Although we approve of the antiquarian interest displayed, we hardly feel that the average passerby appreciates it. --Columbia Spectator...
...safely announced at last that the season has turned for good. Rain has become the mild, innocuous shower bath that characterizes spring downpours, the baseball nines are in the field, the crews crowd the river, and the Vagabond has purchased a pair of vivid socks. Such indications are not to be scorneu, but the skeptic may definitely convince himself of the season by noticing his fellows during the lectures. Despite the best intentions, every eye wanders to the windows, attention follows the eyes, and then goes farther afield to the mountains, shore and great open spaces in general...
...partly undone. A Cambridge realty company announced that it would have ready by autumn a luxurious brick structure called "The Varsity," to be run like a hotel, solely for Harvard students. Sophomores and Juniors would presumably be the only classes eligible to live there. There would be collapsible beds, shower baths with every suite, all-night elevators, with porters, servants, maids and bellboys "available at all times." The cost: $250 to $800 per annum...
According to the announcement, the dormitory will be interially constructed with every thought expended to produce a modern structure: with all modern appliances and facilities. In each bedroom there will be placed beds that fold into the walls, and instead of bathtubs, in-wall shower baths will be constructed in each suite...
...magazine, Good Words: "This is an ideal place for men to refit morally and physically for the battle of life," and "no man is asked or expected to work beyond his capacity or to injure himself by overdoing things. . . . Hot supper is served to every newcomer, and then a shower bath and bed for a good night's rest in warmth and comfort. . . . With the morning comes a revelation in breakfasts and everyone goes to work with pick and shovel making roads" (TIME, Jan. 17). Guest Albert E. Sartain discovers himself paradoxically thankful that it is Mr. Snook...