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Once more the snow drifts are piling up about the massive flanks of Widener and masking the jutting pinacles of Memorial Hall. The student has resurrected his galoshes from the back of his clothes closet and started with a load of books for the library reading room. Winter has returned again, and with it the cold winter habits...
...whether, the difference in American life and American practical requirements being considered, this grade of work properly belongs to the secondary schools. Our high schools, and beneath them the elementary schools, are by these fundamental American conditions, which are very practical conditions, compelled to carry as heavy a load as they can bear. Our educational system includes, and apparently must continue to include, scientific, industrial and commercial instruction, which is in no distinct sense a part of the systems of Europe. It is universally admitted that, in all matters related to language, to literature, to purely social culture, the French...
...Mount Auburn Street was snowy with the stuff. For days afterward the sewers were clogged, but this quality of the printed matter had its good side as well. The city officials said that none of the dirt from Fort Hill had packed so solidly and heavily as each successive load of Lampoon...
...Berlin, Paul Meyerheim, a painter of animals, was last week seen puffing smoke at a caged bear. Said he: "I once got a lion to pose for me by blowing a load of snuff tobacco into his nose. . . . He got up, sneezed with infinite pleasure and then posed...
...Grey Hearse goes rolling by, You don't know whether to laugh or cry, For you know some day it'll get you too. And the hearse's next load may consist of-you. They'll take you out and they'll lower you down, While men with shovels stand all around; They'll throw in dirt and they'll threw in rocks, And they won't give a damn if they break the box. The worms crawl in and the worms crawl out, They crawl all over your chin and mouth...