Word: tub
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Many changes have been introduced since the first university race was rowed in 1829, and since the amateur sculling championship was founded in the following year. The old tub boats have developed into very different looking craft. Outriggers, sliding seats, self-acting rowlocks and steering sails, have all been successfully added, with divers other refinements of the boatbuilder's art; but the science of rowing remains after all, essentially the same, and the same bodily shape and muscular conformation are still usually to be observed in the most successful oarsmen. If we could confine our attention solely to the great...
...testimony in the hazing cases at Annapolis is very curious. One cadet testified that it was really very enjoyable to pick a coin with his teeth from a tub of water...
Thermometers have been placed in the tub and sponge baths at the gymnasium...
...bath tubs in the Gymnasium have been abused. Some persons who were too aristocratic to lie down would put the cricket in the tub and sit on it. This, of course, was ruining the bottom of the tubs, and to stop it the crickets have been taken away and replaced by plank seats...
...Bowls are free to all, but the Tub Baths and Shower Baths can only be used by those having tickets...