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University students do not take much stock in the superstition that walking under a ladder brings bad luck. A lamp cleaner placed his ladder across the walk leaning against a lamp post on the corner of Quincy Street and Massachusetts Avenue. During the five minutes the ladder was across the walk, 22 men, most of them students, walked boldly under the ladder and tempted the gods of fate. In the same interval only one person took the trouble of walking around the foot of the ladder and avoid the consequent ill fortune.
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