Word: toilets
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...right are the coat room and offices. At the further end of the hall is the central lounge, 50x33. Close at hand on the right are five telephone booths. The passenger elevator is at the end of the hall, and the back of the lounge are toilet rooms. At the end of the hall, in a straight line from the main entrance, are the doors to "Harvard Hall," which occupies roughly about one-half of the building and looks out towards Newbury street. This great hall, to be used as the main dining room, will be the important feature...
...dormitories will have single and double suites, and a few larger ones, each suite having a sitting room and a toilet. Each building will have a large Common Room and a dining hall of sufficient size to accommodate the occupants of the building...
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...
...most inadequate of all are the toilet facilities in Holworthy and Thayer. In the basement of the former is one toilet room for the whole building. More need not be said. In Thayer there is one toilet in the basement of each entry. "They are all underground, gloomed by high-set, unclean windows, which preclude good ventilation, and lighted by one or two dim-flickering gas jets. The rough brick walls are often dirty and the wood work is worse. Compared to any respectable house or hotel they are Mr. Viles." This description is not overdrawn...
...understood that the Corporation intends to have toilet facilities installed on the third floor in each entry of Thayer. This is, of course, a step in the right direction, but it will by no means make the conditions what they ought to be. It is not the high rent that has kept the Yard rooms from being filled in past years: the heating, bathing, and toilet facilities have been responsible. The aggregate cost of making the needed improvements in these buildings may be considerable, but a comparatively small rent advance would make it a profitable investment. This year the Juniors...