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Funster Senior Objects to House Showers; Buys Tub

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"Oh, for a good old Saturday night tub bath" has been the complaining cry of J. Leo Rost, a Dunster House Senior in his three years in Cambridge. And now, he at last has his wish, for he has provided himself with a portable, collapsible, rubber tub, in which he is went to "idle among the soap suds with a good book."

Branding showers as "unclean, unsanitary, and unhealthful," Rost claims that he had tried the swimming pool, and even a dip in the cool crystal-clear waters of the Charles as a substitute for an old-fashioned bath, but was satisfied with neither. "Just bring on those Mount Holyoke girls," Rost boasted.

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