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...recent debate in English 5 on "The Advisability of Woman's Suffrage," the question was decided in the negative. Another debate on the Chinese Labor question has recently taken place, and a negative decision was reached...
...first objection to this method that suggests itself is that it would give no way of advancing the classes. We reply that examination would answer every purpose, - not such examination as we have at present, nor, indeed, the exaggerated English system; but a system which should combine the present method and the English thoroughness and fairness, which should announce merely failure, success, or excellence, and not parade results before the public in a deceitful rank-list...
Would we, then, have the entire German system? We answer, No. We would not have the German system, nor the English, nor the so-called American. We would not have the German lack of moral control, nor the English "cram" and conservatism and absurd mediaeval customs, nor the American routine. But we would have the German liberality, the English manners, and the American customs. We would have a system which, while it avoided the evils, should combine the advantages...
...take the words ce qui pend au talon, "that which hangs down to the heels," and then erase all but the verb and the noun, we shall retain the sound of pantalons, from which the present spelling might well arise. The word, at any rate, has been used in English since the time of Hudibras, who says...
...these derivations are etymologically correct is more than I can say; perhaps some of our English-dressed swells can throw some additional light on the matter...