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...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...
...gymnasium at Princeton is to be improved by the addition of a large shower bath containing six sprinklers, six tub baths, six hundred lockers and a working room to contain forty pully machines and other apparatus. Provision is also made for a running track in the upper room...