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...considerable space. The room will be 46 by 80 feet, and the two other rooms will measure each 20 by 30 feet. The latter are to be equipped for fencing, boxing and wrestling, where classes of Freshmen may be instructed. Under these rooms artillery equipment is to be stored. Shower baths, lockers, and an office will complete the interior of the building...
...thoroughly appropriate place for memorial tablets, possibly also for a collection of war relics. The whole building designed for the more dignified occasions of University gathering would surely be a much more suitable memorial than a gymnasium, which would always carry with it the suggestion of daily rub and shower and might easily become a worn out and obsolete, if not offensive building in a few years...
...appeared in the Illustrated a letter from a graduate expressing the hope that the early promise of the Jubilee might be fulfilled and that Harvard men would learn to sing well, and, in particular, wisely, since in his day no student sang with spontaneity and vigor save in the shower-baths, a practice wholly deplored by those who were given to meditation or to sleep...
...well past the "shower-bath" stage, but the war has necessarily interfered with the progress of singing at Harvard. Now, however, we may hope to see an interest in the singing of good, spirited and vital music that shall make itself felt at every college function, formal or informal, and so, eventually, at every graduate affair. There is no "college" occasion where singing is inappropriate; at football games, at athletic meets, at smokers, in clubs,--everywhere is singing desirable, not the half-hearted, heavy, rhythm less rumble that we have sometimes heard in the Stadium, but a clean-cut, vigorous...
...Liberty Bond he bought came out of a special allowance from home: and the "parties" he has gone on have been as big and vigorous as ever. He has had the comforts that men in service consider luxuries. He has had a good bed, plenty of tobacco and shower baths. The Harvard undergraduate has gone to bed every night knowing that he would probably get up safe in the morning. He has not worried about life. He has not take any risk. And, Yet he doesn't want to get up an hour earlier. At Plattsburg and at Barre last...