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...than flesh eaters. Chief vegetarians of the oceans are copepods-tiny, flealike crustaceans related to lobsters and crabs. Copepods browse on the vast, undulating pastures of diatoms, converting plant life into animal life. Thereafter the cold, predatory struggle of the seas begins. On the copepods feed small fish like herring. On these feed larger fish like cod, as well as marine birds, seals, whales. Thus the importance of diatoms...
...volume was edited by Carl. J. Friedrich, Edward S. Mason, and Pendleton Herring, all members of the faculty of the Graduate School of Public Administration...
Among the more important books published was Professor E. P. Herring's "Politics of Democracy" now used for collateral reports in Government...
Professors Wild, Herring, and Haring offer excellent Faculty Footnotes; Arthur Cantor '40 has an article favorably sketching PM; Jack Bronston '42 denounces in not-so-new fashion Mayor Hague; and Thomas O'Toole '42 completes a very worthwhile issue with his essay on the New France
...Jerry). A chambermaid is a skivvy, a woman, a hag. Tea, coffee or cocoa is hogwash or pigswill. A boy who studies hard, swots, is treated with the contempt which he deserves. Many and lurid are the names for a new boy: new brat, new squit, new scum, fresh herring. Richest and nastiest is the group of epithets schoolboys apply to townies, the lowest form of animal life, or schoolmates they dislike. Samples: swine, tick, cad, oik, lout, drip, squirt, scug, goof. Townies often retaliate: e.g., their name for schoolboys of Durham University is varsity tits...