Word: use
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...woodwork of the bath-rooms will be torn out next summer and the whole system will be radically changed, as the construction was faulty from the beginning. The pipe from the street is altogether too small, and the tank often runs dry, to the great annoyance of those who use the water. If the bath-rooms are moved, a large shower-bath will be retained in the gymnasium. Plans for the addition have already been made, but proved unsatisfactory, and the new ones are in progress. Work will be commenced at the earliest opportunity, and it is intended that there...
...passes now, in which more or less fault is not found with the bathing facilities in the gymnasium. There is no doubt that the apparatus is inadequate for the uses of so many men as now regularly exercise during the afternoons, but, as reported in another column, some radical changes will be made during the coming summer. Still, what will be done next year, does not aid us much just now. It seems to show shameful negligence somewhere, that everyday the hot water gives out in the shower bath-room and the agonies of an icy cold ducking have...
...director and Mr. Dorpfield. The hospitalities of the school were extended to Dr. T. D. Goodell, of Hartford, Mr. M. C. Gile, of Phillips Academy at Andover, and Mr. H. T. Hildredth, who returned to Athens to continue his investigation of the demes of Northern Attica. The use of the library was freely granted to the members of the British School, whose library did not reach Athens until the end of the year. Access to the library was given also to many Americans who came to Athens merely as tourists. They were aided by the director also in forming plans...
...popularly supposed that all green papers are dangerous, and that all others are safe. In consequence, arsenical green papers have become unsaleable, and great care is taken to have them safe. A brilliant red dye has, however, been discovered, which is made from coal tar by the use of arsenic, and this enters into the composition of Pompeian red and various browns, where its use would be least suspected. Arsenic is also used to brighten other colors, and as an antiseptic in the size. Since the arsenic gets into the paper in such various ways, it is impossible to tell...
...prescribe steady gymnasium work as a requisite for obtaining a degree. A sound body is certainly to be desired in a student, but we consider it inadvisable to thrust a knowledge of the flying rings upon a man to whom such instruction is distasteful. Better far to use one's persuasive powers on recalcitrant gymnasts...