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...Boston Herald says, "In view of the waste of hot water in the gymnasium, it is proposed to charge every person who takes a hot bath the sum of five cents." The above statement has no foundation in fact, as far as official proposal is concerned. The authorities of the gymnasium contemplate making no such absurd charge...
...been suggested that one reason for the inadequate supply of hot water at the gymnasium is due to the continual waste of water in the shower bath. Men go into the shower-bath room and, turning on the warm water, will leave it running when there is no need of it. In the early part of the afternoon, when there are comparatively few men using the room, there is no necessity of keeping the water running continually. If every man would simply take the slight trouble of turning the faucet when he steps from under the bath, much water would...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: There is probably no institution of Harvard University with which less fault can be found than the gymnasium. But lately there has grown up a grievance there which well deserves the condemnation it receives. I refer to the insufficient supply of hot water in the bath-rooms. I do not know exactly what time the hot water gives out, but I know that no man on the '85 crew has been able to find a drop of warm water for some time, and I believe some of the other crews find things the same way. There...
...Sargent has prescribed tepid baths for the majority of the students, and in most cases they are undoubtedly the best; but such prescription is of little value when the only bath one can get is about equivalent to being rubbed down with ice. To many persons excessively cold baths are not only very disagreeable, but positively injurious. In fact I believe the shock given by very cold water to a person heated by exercise, is not good...
Found - A gold ring and guard in one of the bath rooms of the gymnasium. Apply at 9 Stoughton...