Word: bathing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...College is to have the Boat-house on condition of paying off the existing mortgage and fixing up the second story with two hundred or more lockers, a bath-room, with shower-baths, bath-tub, hand basins, etc., and a reading or sitting room. There are to be reserved for the University Crew their present room up stairs and one compartment down stairs...
Another point has not been noticed enough, that of the want of bathing opportunities. Of the students whose homes are at a distance, few enjoy the luxury, or rather necessity, of a bath without incurring the expense of going to a hotel. Matthews and Holyoke are the only buildings furnished with bath-rooms. Why would it not be feasible to put up such accommodations in the, for the most part, unused basements of Hollis, Stoughton, Holworthy, and Weld, as there are in the basement of Matthews? If this plan were carried out, it would, we think, do more...
...Harvard Hall, built in 1765, and standing on the site of old Harvard, which was burnt in 1764; Massachusetts Hall, built in 1720; Hollis Hall, built in 1763; Holden Chapel, built in 1745; College House, a wooden building, 1770; and Stoughton Hall, built in 1698. . . . . During this summer, a bath was erected at brick-wharf for the benefit of the students of the University. It was made under the superintendence of Thomas Brattle, Esquire, and happily unites ornament with utility...
...through the long vista of years during which she lived with Pat or Mike, and a brood of children, in two wretched, dirty rooms. After years and grinding poverty have rendered her a fit model for the figure of a Hecate, and experience has taught her that a second bath in a twelvemonth is superfluous, she is, by a bitter irony, appointed to clean and take care of the rooms of perhaps thirty unfortunate students. The innocent Freshman, coming from a home where everything is done by well-taught and comely servants, is surprised at the contrast between the actual...
...have heard rumors that, Plutone volente, the authorities intend erecting a new and gorgeous gymnasium, converting the present fungus-like structure into a swimming-bath. This reminds one of The Last Days of Pompeii, and excites in the mind a dazzling vision of sybaritic splendor. But we fear that a tincture of Freshmen in Fresh Pond H2 + (?) would cause the bath to be too much after the style of the Leukerbad, on the Gemmi, to be popular with many of the students...