Word: showered
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...engaged rooms in them to locate elsewhere temporarily. The dormitories, when finished, will be divided throughout into sections by means of fire-proof doors, each section containing both single rooms and suites. Unlike the Freshman dormitories of the University, there will be no rooms furnished with baths, but large shower rooms will be conveniently located on each floor...
...least necessity exists for Plattsburg graduates to forfeit 10 per cent. of the money the government now owes them. A shower of circulars from claim agents in Washington gives the contrary impression. The facts are these: Congress has appropriated sufficient money to reimburse every man who attended Plattsburg this summer for all his expenses at camp, and for his transportation there and back. The Military Training Camps Association is now engaged in obtaining this money from the War Department, and will see that each man receives his due without paying a cent in commission. The claim agents in Washington...
...comparatively civilized, the morning bath is regarded as an institution almost indispensable. Yet the Senior, particularly if he lives in one of the upper floors of a Yard dormitory, is practically denied the use of a bath between the hours of eight and nine every morning. He enters a shower whose value is mainly historical, turns on the water, and is greeted with a pitiful trickle as temperamentally hot and cold as a prima donna. Doubtless this is due to insufficient pressure in pumping the water, and not to a conspiracy to interfere with his ablutions. If cleanliness is next...
...first place, there is little or no care taken to see that the swimmers take a shower before entering the pool, so that it is not at all infrequent that swimmers take their wash in the pool instead of in the proper place. Not even so much as a printed notice giving instructions as to the proper order of procedure appeared after a diligent search on my part. It sometimes happens that fellows go in with light clothing on, thus making of the pool not only a bath-tub, but a laundry-tub also...
Examinations for admission to the College begin in the Hemenway Gymnasium today, and continue until June 19. Consequently the Gymnasium will not be open for exercise, although the shower baths may be used until Wednesday. All students who take advantage of this fact are requested to be as quiet as possible, in order that those who are taking the examinations may not be disturbed by an unnecessary noise...