Word: stones
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...improvement in the accommodations of the gymnasium. New lockers and apparatus have been put in and several desirable changes made. But there still remains one department which is capable of change for the better. This is the bathing department. It has long been a standard complaint that the small stone bathtubs for sponge bathing are far from what they ought to be. Many men speak of this and shun them entirely after a single trial. Yet Dr. Sargent prescribes sponge bathing for many men and if his instructions are to be followed these tubs must be used. The trouble...
This evening a mass meeting will be held in Holden Chapel to take action upon the recent vote of the faculty adopting the athletic resolutions. This means is taken further to inform the authorities what the feeling of the whole college is upon this most important matter. No stone is being left unturned that will help convince these authorities that they were not in accord with the wishes of the students when they adopted those rules. First the athletic organizations started the ball rolling with their petition and now the feeling being that all should have a hand...
...this noble college, I am full of wrath at the mismanagement which allows such sidewalks as we have. Every man in college has had the same experience for the last two weeks of rainy weather. What we want and must have, is better sidewalks in the yard. The stone walk from Grays to Holworthy, in front of Weld and University, is a disgrace to any civilized community...
...held in Boston, at the Meionaon, on Thursday, February 28, from 7.30 to 10 P. M. The following persons have been invited to make ten minute speeches, giving reminiscences of Wendell Phillips: Mrs. Elizabeth B. Chace, Theodore D. Weld, Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Sewall, Rev. Samuel May, Lucy Stone, William L. Bowditch, John G. Whittier, T. W. Higginson, Rev. James Freeman Clarke, Willim Lloyd Garrison, Jr., Julia Ward Howe, Hon. Albert Palmer, Ednah D. Cheney, H. B. Blackwell, Elizur Wright, Hon. Thomas Russell, Richard P. Hallowell, Chas. W. Slack and George W. Lowther...
...college discipline, said that he could not say that it had worked at all. Speaking of the endowment, he said that the college which has any life in it will always be wanting something. The relief which Bowdoin has received has come largely from outside, especially in the Stone and Winkley Professorships, founded by the late Mrs. Valeria G. Stone, of Malden, and Mr. Henry Winkley, of Philadelphia. Nothing was known of Mr. Winkley before he made this gift. One day, Prof. Packard said, he saw a gentleman looking about the grounds. He asked him if he would like...