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Much difficulty is found at the gymnasium in getting a pleasurable mean of temperature in the water in the shower-bath room. It usually seems determined to be either scalding hot, or icy cold...
...Past experience has shown that, heretofore, all efforts in this direction have proved of no avail. Is it impossible to heat the building? This is certainly a matter of vital importance to the students who are to have examinations there. In all probability the weather will be very cold during the time of the examinations and the dreary thought of sitting three hours in that ice-house is certainly not encouraging...
During the recent hour-examination in Sophomore Rhetoric the rooms were so cold that a man could see his breath before him. It was almost impossible to sit there, and still more difficult to write. Of course, the majority of men kept their overcoats on and some few tried to write with gloves. This last is somewhat difficult. The instructor himself complained of the cold. If it was too cold for a man who was at liberty to walk around, with his hands in his pockets, and who only staid for a few minutes, what must it have been...
Setting aside the question of inconvenience, that of health comes up. Men complain of the evil effects of sitting in chapel for fifteen minutes with cold feet. This is nothing compared to the injurious effects of sitting almost motionless for three hours in Massachusetts. The building is as full of draughts as a barn...
...trouble-some than the clumsy system now in vogue. In regard to the question of health, we quote from the last annual report of President Porter, of Yale, in which he says, "The most serious foes to health are late hours, late suppers *** and exposures to heat, dampness, and cold. The provisions for heating so many of our public and private apartments by steam is, and has proved to be, an important security against disease." The only question left to be discussed, then, is that of economy. The students are now paying janitors $25 per year for making fires...