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...bonfire. The spread might be said to antedate the famous ban on "plum cake" in 1693. For many a year Harvard graduating classes planted Ivy shoots in the unpropitious soil of the Yard. Dancing on the green was a favorite pastime, and the confetti battle is an indirect by-product of the fighting about the historic tree. Furthermore, the Class of 1838 was the first to invite mothers, sisters, and sweethearts to the celebration, the affair up to that date being hardly favorable for feminine attendance because of liberal libations of iced ruin punch...
...Bacteriophage-a living by-product of the development of bacteria which has the power of destroying the bacteria when they reach a certain concentration (TIME, Aug. 30, 1926). The bacteriophage of bacillary dysentery has been employed by the Oswaldo-Cruz Institute in Brazil to eradicate bacillary dysentery in that country...
...whose time, taste, or abilities do not allow him to enter into either the major sports or the majority of minor sports has found in squash racquets a game exactly adapted to his needs. That participation therein should be hampered by inadequate facilities is a new condition, an unfortunate by-product of new popularity...
Searchers among old U. S. Senate files discovered a petition presented to the Senate in 1912. This petition had been circulated by the National Anti-Third Term League, an anti-Roosevelt by-product of the 1912 campaign. It bore only the signature of the late Senator Henry W. Blair, then president of the Anti-Third Term League. Since a petition with only one signer presumably would not have been presented, the inference was that the other signatures were not preserved...
...endeavor to choose among them on the basis of their special qualifications? If all citizens are endowed with the same political capacity, why let any one stay in office very long? Our reluctance to make use of experts in any branch of public administration is in large measure a by-product of this national obsession. The most formidable obstacle in the path of civil service reform is not the avarice of the politician. It is the deep-seated popular conviction that any able-bodied citizen, whatever his competence or lack of it, has an equal and indefeasible right...