Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...DAILY CRIMSON closes at the opening of May. The time has at last come when the senior members of the board of editors must step down and out to make room for the under-classmen who are waiting to take their proper stations, each a round higher upon the ladder of promotion. But before retiring, the eighty-five men can not refrain from acknowledging the strong support with which the college has favored the paper during the year which they have been at the head of affairs, a year thus made the brightest and most prosperous in the history...
ROPE CLIMBING.Foster, '85, E. E. Allen, '84, and Pudor, '86, entered to see who could reach the ceiling of the gymnasium. This year, Jim, the gymnasium boy, was perched on a ladder to see which should be the first man up. Allen and Foster went up first. The usual safety ropes were dispensed with. Allen reached the top in 22 seconds. Pudor, who went up alone, made it in 22 3-4 seconds. Foster did not reach the top at all. Allen's record was better than that made by Marquand last year. so that it stands as the Harvard...
...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...