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"...schoolma'ams make big bad boys remain after school; lads with ladders steal lightly over lawns where Juliet waits in her trellissed window with her telescope packed; young couples out for a walk come home married; old chaps put on white spats and promenade near the Normal School; even married men, grown unwontedly tender and sentimental, whack their spouses on the back and growl: "How goes it, old girl:"
A famous Massachusetts educator, Horace Mann was able to persuade the Legislature to establsh schools to train teachers. I'm not sure where the name "Normal" came from, but I suspect it was French. Now the ones in MA are State Universities.
I wonder if O.Henry got kept after school for private education about the facts of life.
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