Word: bathing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...means of irrigation or of lavation. If for the former purpose, it is to be hoped Mars is not so dry as Kansas. If for the latter, it betokens a higher state of civilization than has been attained in the backwoods of Maine, where the weekly sabbatical bath is still a hallowed and inviolate tradition...
...Great Barrington; Joseph Glaser, Jr., of St. Louis, Mo.; James Francis Hennessey, of Lawrence; Ludlow Thomas Lanman, of Lawrence, L. I., N. Y. ; Jack Ross Lauer, of Scranton, Pa.; Valentine Everit Macy, Jr., of Scarborough on Hudson, N. Y.; Alexander Mitchell Robinson, of Jamaica Plain; Sumner Sewall, of Bath, Me.; Gardner Tilton, captain, of Lexington; Albert Haslam Walsh, of Reading, and Slater Washburn, of Worcester. These awards are subject to the approval of the Athletic Committee and Student Council...
...prize of $200 for the best paper on plumbing. What plumbing has to do with scholarship and its bearing on proficiency in Latin or football is not quite clear. Yet in a sense plumbing is a classical theme; the pipes, by which the water was conducted through the Roman baths were early examples of the plumber's art and no doubt a comprehensive academic dissertation on the subject would trace their relation to the modern bath...
...time made was 10 minutes, 6 seconds, but the wash was very heavy from the launches following, and with all conditions considered, the time was creditable. The members of the first Yale crew received rather luxurious treatment after their afternoon work-out, for a rub-down and a bath was presented them on "The While-away," after which ceremony the trusty "Elihu Yale" took them back to the quarters
...Needle.'" The fact that Clyde Fitch was not born until some two hundred years after the writing of the comedy did not seem to count. But the conversation brings to light several interesting facts about the actual authorship of the play, generally attributed to John Still, Bishop of Bath and Wells, and formerly resident master of arts at Christ's College. However, there is no conclusive evidence of John Still's authorship, and the farce, "made by Mr. S., master of arts," as explained in some of the prints, could easily have been by Mr. William Stevenson or any other...