Word: tubs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...University Gymnasium Team, Ralph Derr '97, of Pennsylvania was elected captain for next year. It was decided that an exhibition be given during commencement week in the Brokau Tank consisting of flying, double and balancing trapeze work. There will also be an exhibition of diving and a tub race. Two swimming races one under water and one above will also take place. This exhibition will be made an annual event in order to show to everyone this important facility and its use by the students...
...first great books were the "Battle of the Books" and the "Tale of a Tub." The first was a vigorous and exuberant satire, racy and picturesque in style, while the second fairly swarmed over with ideas, ideas of nature, of art, of life, all expressed with buoyancy of wit and crispness of statement. It marked perhaps the height of his genius, and won him world-wide reputation...
...before the set basins. Then when a man finally does get possession of some bit of apparatus he has to hurry through his ablutions so as not to keep the crowd waiting. All is hurry and confusion, and all is unsatisfactory. The college has long since outgrown its wash-tub, and another must be bought...
...rooms in the upper story of the building are necessarily few as the tank, cage and courts extend to the roof. There are only two, and a tub bath. The former contain about sixty lockers...
...following are the required readings on Swift in English A: "The Battle of the Books," "The tale of the Tub" (omitting preface and conclusion) and the "Argument against abolishing Christianity...