Step lively

Our London correspondent informs us that the "spirit of rush" possesses London. The motor omnibuses reach a speed rate of four miles an hour. The guards on the underground railway are beginning to exclaim "Step lively!" Old-fashioned, conservative Britons are indignant.

"Step lively, please," said a jiffy who was sitting on the adjoining post. "Father Time permits no delays, you know; come, step lively!"

The Oxford system of a wheel within a wheel has all the advantages of the small college and the great university. The student of even mediocre ability, if he have ambition and energy, can find himself and his place among the multiplex societies and clubs of the Oxford College, while even a hunchback, if he steps lively, can get on some sort of college athletic team.

The making up of ninety beds in twelve hours requires (granting that you dote on bedmaking) no superhuman strength and endurance; but if, in addition, you are expected to clean thirty-six spittoons, three lavatories, a lobby, and a restaurant, it behooves you to step lively.

As I watched, the crew stepped lively, the capstan grasped by four men, the fore and aft anchors rapidly pulled and secured.

And yet there the Seahawks were Thursday afternoon, on one of the soccer fields of FC Bayern Munich's vast practice facility, stepping lively as the familiar music from their weekly "Techno Thursday" playlist blared.