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...this country and in Europe has been so great that many have estimated that, if the present wholesale cutting is continued the Rhine, Elbe and other important streams will become unnavigable. The evidence of history is so marked that there can be no doubt but that the earth's crust is becoming deeper and that the cutting of forests has aided in this process. Governments have seen this and have established forestry bureaus for the preservation of the forests...
Unless by some unlucky chance we are treading upon the hollow crust which overlies the deep volcano of a satirical editorial, we wish to enter our protest against the suggestion advanced in the last Advocate, that in order to secure victory our team adopt next year the Yale method of playing foot-ball-the method of illegal fouling and of deliberate maiming. Harvard can never descend to such a game, and if the suggestion of the Advocate be serious, it is, we think, highly reprehensible and unworthy of our esteemed contemporary...
...gnaw my crust, and think, when I was younger...
Parade the grounds with yellow, pie-crust suits...
...assistance is not a success reminds me of other things about which the same thing might be said. The trouble, as I see it, is that the underlying principle is wrong. The aid is given as a means, and is not made an end; it is bestowed as a crust is flung to a beggar, and implies an obligation for the favor received. The bestowal of money to help men along will undoubtedly always imply a certain amount of obligation, but that obligation should be only a tacit...