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...winter has seen considerable improvement in the accommodations of the gymnasium. New lockers and apparatus have been put in and several desirable changes made. But there still remains one department which is capable of change for the better. This is the bathing department. It has long been a standard complaint that the small stone bathtubs for sponge bathing are far from what they ought to be. Many men speak of this and shun them entirely after a single trial. Yet Dr. Sargent prescribes sponge bathing for many men and if his instructions are to be followed these tubs must...
...statement takes up the duties of the various officers and states them clearly. It ought to be remembered that the "directors are the mouth-piece of the members at large. They receive and act upon any suggestions, hear and investigate all complaints and in general constitute a means of communication between the members and the officers to whom the actual details of management are entrusted." Concerning such suggestions and complaints, a good deal might be said. It seems to be a prevalent idea that, whenever a member becomes a little dissatisfied with anything, he should immediately indite a ferocious communication...
...sons, has been recently indulging in criticism of the college. At the annual dinner of the Harvard alumni in Washington a few weeks since, it is reported that Mr. Long said that "it was one of the charges against the university that it did not teach Greek. His complaint was that it did not really teach anything; meaning thereby that it gave no sound instruction to a student who did not care to study." But one might ask what college ever did undertake to give "sound" instruction to such a student? Ex-Gov. Long's charge, we take...
...action of the Memorial Hall directors in creating a committee which shall keep the student better informed of the working of the hall is a good move. The complaint that has been so often made that the system in yogue there is one whose workings are dark and beyond the comprehension of ordinary mortals will now be hushed. With everything made clear, there is no reason why the hall should not prosper even more than before. The idea of improving the lunches will meet with approval from all the boarders. Hitherto the lunches have been considered the weakest part...
...practised upon the freshman class. There it would do the most good. All freshmen would become thoroughly intimate with the advantages of the gymnasium and a desire of continuing the good work thus inaugurated would lead more than at present to follow it up throughout their course. The chief complaint would be that such a system being compulsory would be irksome and cause discontent. This is true; but many men, especially those just entering college, do not realize the importance of this training, and compulsion is the only way to bring them to know its benefits. The system might...