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...event of such a case then, arrived at the fire, the fore girl will shout, as loudly as is consistent with propriety, through her speaking trumpet, and the firegirls, after putting on their rubbers and waterproofs, will connect the water pipe-for it would be hardly 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...
Later a white wooden paling closed the western side; but this in time gave way to the present solid fence. In the early part of the present century only the oldest of the trees were standing. President Quincy planted most of the remainder; and it is to his fore sight that we owe our thanks every spring for the pleasant and grateful shade of our great elms. The paths are many of them simply old short cuts regularly laid out and the slate, brick and plank walks are of quite recent construction. Of the grounds of all the various colleges...
...place. We have heard of a parent, undecided as to whether he should send his boy to Yale or Harvard, settling finally on the latter, solely because of the reported malarial tendencies of New haven. And this imminity of Harvard is undoubtedly due in great measure to the wise fore-thought of the college authorities. Three adn a half years ago, although there had been up to that time no evil results, they removed from the dormitory buildings, at considerable expense, a system of drainage that was most offensive, and that would probably before this time have brought a fever...
...weight, and some men have managed to put up more than their own weight; and as to pulling up, a girl with developed arms can do it five or six times with comparative ease, and a boy with thoroughly good arms two or three times as many. Both the fore-arms and the upper arms of most girls are not so large by an inch as those of well-built girls of their height and age. Yet in any well-regulated gymnasium, we find youths adding in one year an inch, and even two inches, to the girth of each...
...Gymnasium of the Young Men's Christian Association at Brooklyn, Dr. Sargent, of Hemenway Gymnasium at Harvard University, and Archabald Maclaren, of the Gymnasium at Oxford University in England, all find no difficulty in adding in one year from an inch to an inch and a half to the fore and upper arms, and three inches to the girth of chest, of pupils under their charge...