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...subject was Switzerland. The hall was entirely filled with people who thoroughly enjoyed the lecture. In the course of the lecture, Mr. Huntington described an ascent which he made of Monte Rosa, a mountain nearly as high as Mont Blane. The mountain is a very difficult one to ascend, so difficult that it is impossible to carry a camera along, so that no views of the ascent itself could be given. Views, however, illustrating the various difficulties in the ascent of a snow-covered mountain were given. Mr. Huntington's ascent and descent was made very quickly, so quickly that...
...beyond it self"), until we reach those animals in which the sexes are distinguished. The sexual and parental instinct is the beginning of sympathy. In the lower forms in which this instinct is distinguished, it is but momentary, and the offspring is self-supporting from the first. As we ascend we see the young more and more helpless, and drawing more and more care from the parent. The next phase of sympathy is that for the tribe, which we reach in the ant. The ants in each hill cooperate in labor; but their sympathy does not extend to ants...
...delicate to refer to it in public as "hose"-and turn on the water. Armed with large tack hammers, the firegirls will break open doors and windows and place step ladders against the wall of the burning building to assist the inmates to escape. That the firegirls should actually ascend the step ladders in the full gaze of the public, and while the fierce light of the fire plays about their ankles is, of course, unthinkable. Hence it is difficult to see how they could carry the hose-we should say water pipe-to the upper story of a building...
...that the beauty of the buildings appears. The most noticeable feature is the Gothic tower rising one hundred and fifty feet from the low lying building that surround it. One of the curious customs of the college, handed down from remote times, is that early Mayday morning the choir ascend to the top of the tower and greet the rising sun with a hymn...
...Ascending the steps the student first enters a large open porch 9 by 40 feet, covered by three high arches, the central one supported at each end by eight isolated columns of polished granite, while at the extreme ends of the side arches are four similar columns. From the extreme right of the porch runs the spiral staircase in the turret by which professors may either descend into the private lavatories in the basement or ascend into the large room provided for their special use up stairs. Continuing straight through the porch into a large vestibule...