Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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, and how they could render much service except in case of a fire confined strictly...
...following is the list of sports at the coming winter meetings at Yale: Vaulting, horizontal bar, rope climbing, standing high jump, running high jump, high kick, fencing; wrestling-heavy, middle, light and feather-weight; boxing-heavy, middle, light and feather-weight; tug-of-war, (600 lbs. limit...
Saturday, March 15. Heavy-weight sparring, middle weight sparring, heavy weight wrestling, middle-weight wrestling, light-weight wrestling, feather-weight wrestling, parallel bars, putting the shot...
Saturday, March 22. Ladies' day. Light-weight sparring, feather-weight sparring, fencing, two-hand vault, standing high jump, club swinging, (Legitimate...
...interest sufficient to lead them to attend regularly and to devote to it at least a fair amount of work. The old method of conducting half courses, by which two lours of recitations per week were held throughout the entire year, was certainly a failure when viewed in this light. And in truth this was only a natural result. Aside from the lack of interest which was due to the intervale between the recitations, every man felt that such courses demanded more work from him than he was given credit for doing. It was openly acknowledged that two half-courses...