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...even in that respect, the change would not cause tremendous havoc. The present dormitory groupings, the present tutorial system, the practical system; all these are easily adaptable to the smaller colleges. Thus this section of the Committee's report is no idle vaporism or Pla tonle impossibility. It is a sane suggestion of offering a practical panacea for present ills. That it has novelty, one can easily agree. But that the novelty dwindles to insignificance before the sanity and sufficiency of its conception, one must surely admit. In this section of the report, the Committee has certainly...
...well known. Where insects are introduced into a foreign country they often prove very destructive because there are usually in that country no parasites to prey on them. This, you know, was the case of the Gypsy Moth. This month was introduced from Europe, and has wreaked great havoc upon the trees here in the east...
...would have smashed by many an inch the present "world's record" of 6 ft. 8 5/16 in. (held by Harold M. Osborn of Illinois). Should the towering Watusi blackamoors ever send a picked team of runners and jumpers to the Olympic Games, great might be the havoc they could wreak...
...land, stories began to trickle into the newspapers telling of the havoc wrought by the cyclone. At Folkestone, a motor truck was blown into the sea and the driver killed. At Portsmouth, a tramcar was blown into a house. In Wales, the coal mines were flooded. Along the Thames, people were "drowned out of their houses." From every coastal point, news came to London telling of angry waves battering the piers and swamping the promenades. Damage to telegraph and telephone wires greatly interfered with communication, while Channel boats suspended service between England and France...
...idol lay untended and forgotten in the days of war when all men's minds must belong, willy-nilly, to their country. The New Republic, equally impious, destroys his hypothesis that high taxes restrict individual beneficence toward education. On all sides Doctor Butler's pet theories are bombarded with havoc. But evidently he has found a bomb-proof shelter, from which he mocks his adversaries. From the solid materials of scholarship and reflection, he has built an edifice of authority within which he sits untroubled by the blood-cravings of the hostile mob without...