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...fire breaks out to form a circle round about it, and to pour water on it from their watering pots while singing that beautiful song, "Water, bright water, for me, but gin for the masculine fire ladies:" They have signed a pledge never to go up a step ladder in public, no matter how confident any one of their number may be as to the shapeliness of her ankles, and have agreed that in case they cannot put out a fire in a ladylike way they will scream for the police, and select eligible officers with whom to faint away...
...word because the chasm between the great endowed schools, colleges, and universities and the places for the instruction of the poor was as wide as that between Lazarus and Dives. Huxley had said that no system of public education was worthy the name unless it created a great educational ladder, with one end in the gutter and the other in the university...
...have weak arms. If they doubt it, let them try with one hand to push up once high over their head a dumb-bell weighing a quarter or even a fifth of their own weight. Or with both hands catching hold of a bar or the rung of a ladder, as high up as they can reach, let them see if they can pull slowly up till the chin touches the hands. Yet a moderately strong man at dumb-bells will push up one weighing over half his own weight, and some men have managed to put up more than...
...seen in China men of fifty years of age, the fathers of families, still attending college, diligently seeking to obtain their first degree. But the gaining of the first degree does not complete a Chinaman's education; far from it, he has gained but the first step on the ladder of fame." An idea that certainly presents a startling suggestion to Americans. Under such a system it is probable that the majority of, for example, the Harvard faculty would still be in the leading-strings of "Finals" and "Semis;" but then the query arises, "Who would constitute the teaching body...
...fire ladder escapes have been put in College House...