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...balcony is so low that any lover endowed with tolerable agility could vault to the side of his mistress with the greatest of ease. The window could clearly be high enough to warrant Romeo's employment of "cords made like a tackled stair" - that is to say, a rope ladder - to reach it. There is truth, however, in the statement that Irving's several attempts to reach Miss Terry's hand, "which is just out of reach, and his desperate clutches and frantic gestures, approach within a dangerous distance of the ridiculous...
...constructed that there is always a powerful up-draft in each entry. Let a fire get under a good headway on the bottom floor and the entry will become a death-trap to those above. There is no escape except by jumping from the windows. Matthews has a fire ladder, but Thayer, the largest and highest building, has no means of escape, except the wooden fire ladders under the chapel, which are not long enough to reach the upper story. A fire, occurring in a building like Thayer during the night, would probably destroy life, thereby injuring Harvard more than...
...doubt if you can guess it, so I'll tell you. It was a promotion, in the shape of a crystal button, to the fifth rank. How is that for high! There are nine ranks in all, so you see I am half way up the ladder...
...with a suitably attached knotted rope long enough to reach the ground. In each of the old buildings and in Farnam much the same contrivance is to be adopted in each entry, the rope, however, being attached at the highest of the hallway. In the old chapel an iron ladder is to be permanently attached in the rear, reaching from the window of the room in the gable to the sill of the blind window about eight feet above the ground. These fire-escapes are to be placed in position soon." Meanwhile Harvard is left to the saving grace...
...Cambridge went out and fired at it with their revolvers, but it was three or four hours before any one hit it. Then again they put a large tin cap on the top of the soldiers' monument on the common. It took all of the hook and ladder companies and a windy speech of the mayor's to get it off. There used to to be some knockers in college then. Two or three of them would tackle a whole crowd, and fight till they cleaned them out, or got laid out themselves. Once a few of them cleaned...