Word: suit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Every student will be expected to provide himself with the costume mentioned above, a patent gymnastic belt, a cake of perfumed soap, a flannel bathing-suit with shoes, and a copy of the Harvard Recorder.1 Students must leave their shoes at the plank walk, and put on white felt slippers; no slippers can be used except those sold at the Gymnasium at the moderate price of $8.00 a pair...
...seems to suggest - what is elsewhere apparent - that some of the professors forget that students make a university, and that professors' chairs have been endowed for men whose work it is to instruct students. It is therefore highly unjust that instructors should continue this practice in order merely to suit their own convenience. If the work becomes too much for one man he ought to get assistance, but never to turn his peaceful marking-machine into a weeding-machine; for the uses of the two are not synonymous...