Until the completion of the Hemenway Gymnasium, the College would seem to be in a sorry plight as far as bathing facilities are concerned. In most of the dormitories there are no baths at all, and in none of them are there baths to spare: there must be hundreds of students who will find that passion for cleanliness, which seems characteristic of the Harvard undergraduate, ungratified. It does not seem quite fair that the College should bring students here and then leave them without the means to an end so important that it has been next to godliness. A way of escape from the difficulty seems fortunately to present itself in the Carey Building. Before the demand becomes too pressing might not the baths there be thrown open to general use? True, they would not prove wholly adequate, but better slight than total inadequacy. Students will realize that they are making the best of a bad matter, and will wait patiently for the good that is in store for them when the Gymnasium is completed; while without the Carey baths they will become forcibly and justly impatient.
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