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Williams has now the model college dormitory. Morgan Hall, the gift of Ex-Governor Morgan to the college, is ready for its occupants. The building is a model of convenience, being warmed by steam, aired by the best ventilation, with hot and cold water in all the rooms and in a bath-room in the basement. Each set of rooms consists of a reception room and two chambers, so that they can accommodate two or four students. Each reception room is furnished with a stationary book-case. The work on the rooms and smaller doors is an imitation of cherry...
...chapel stories the following from a Yale Ex. takes the supremacy: "When the chapel doors were opened after prayers this morning, the thermometer fell 20 degrees on the campus by reason of the rush of cold...
...first place, the examination rooms have been cold. I do not think this can be remedied merely by making a fire and opening the registers at six o'clock in the morning. I am not a sexton, but I know that in well-regulated churches the sexton starts the furnace fire on Saturday, and often on Friday. In this way not only is the room sure to be warm, but the heat by that time can be adjusted to the right temperature. In buildings like Massachusetts and University, rarely used until examination time, this previsional care is almost absolutely necessary...
...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 are lots of other men who stop exercising promptly when the bell rings, who yet are obliged to take a cold bath or none. Of course they might leave off exercising sooner, but the crews have to be there at certain times and stay till their work is finished...
...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...