Word: bathing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...eastern side of the building, i e. on the side nearest the Scientific School, are the bathing and dressing rooms. A dressing-room fitted with lockers, and measuring 16 by 93 feet, extends from the office door to the northern wall of the building. This part of the gymnasium has one small and two large wings. The northeastern and southeastern wings (each 20 by 24 feet) are provided with stationary wash-bowls and bath-tubs, and have brick floors and glazed-brick walls; thus, the greatest durability and the greatest cleanliness are at once obtained. The small wing, between...
GROUND has been already broken for the new Gymnasium, and the prospect is good that it will be completed some time in the autumn. Proposals for making the old Gymnasium into a swimming-bath are now in order...
...University House, that on the right the Club House, and the farthest one, on the left, the workshop of the ingenious boat-builder, John Blakey. The lower stories of the two houses contain the boats; the upper stories, lockers and dressing-rooms. The University House has also a bath-room and a large room for meetings, etc. This house has a balcony, from which one gets a magnificent view of the river...
...without giving anybody a chance to row excepting the crew and those who go to the additional expense of buying a boat and paying rent on it. Membership of the H. U. B. C. merely gives one the privilege of going into the boat-house and taking a shower-bath...
...order to retain possession of the cup. One other item that will add to the comfort of those who row is that a passage-way is to be cut from the club-house into the University house, and thus members coming in from rowing can easily get to the bath-rooms without being obliged, as heretofore, to go around on the outside...