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...largest of the frogs is the bullfrog, which begins life as a tadpole. When small, they live entirely on vegetable food, but when older they devour insects, which are caught by means of their long tongues covered by a sticky fluid. There are also the spring frogs, leopard frogs, and marsh frogs, all much alike, but characterized by difficult markings. The wood frog lives on land, and is difficult to catch except when it goes to the water to lay its eggs...
...freshman and sophomore nines went about seeking whom they might devour and devouring them handily, all during the autumn...
That fell destroyer the Columbia College Chess Club has challenged Bowdoin to a correspondence game. Insatiable the lion calls for another lamb to devour...
...reads this barrowing tale it will afford some satisfaction to learn that the guilty ones are to be dealt with according to their deserts. No penalty should be thought too severe - even to compelling them to devour the whole of their ill-gotten store. When the news of the outrage became known the freshman class promptly met and reported the matter to the faculty. They, on their part, have taken measures for expelling the offenders, who it appears have been guilty of other atrocities only rivalled in cruelty by the above described act. One freshman reports that he was recently...
There is one thing in which Columbia claims the championship. She has just beaten Yale in a chess tournament, and now she is roaming up and down like a hungry lion, seeking for some fresh victim to devour...