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...foremost topic of the day on the Harvard campus. Harvard bemoans the fact that the followers of John Harvard have no bulldog, tiger, mule. goat, or bear to help the Crimson flash in triumph on the athletic field, and suggests that any sort of a screech, howl, back, growl, bray, bleat, or crow would suffice...
...they are told to do so: and each votes for the officers that the man next to him puts down. But if for one moment they suspect that someone is trying to force their hand, then chaos reigns and the little demagogues of Government I rise in wrath and howl defiance...
...then $8, then $1,500 a year, then $8 a day once more, then $3,000 a year. In 1866, it was made $5,000 a year. In 1872, by the famous "salary grab." Congress increased its salary to $7,500, making the increase retroactive over two years. A howl arose. In the succeeding election, many Congressmen were defeated and the next Congress reduced its pay to the old figure. In 1907, pay was raised to $7,500, at which it has remained until the present time...
...colleges of the country have become crammed to overflowing with earnest youths seeking "success" through the "sesame" of a college education. Now when some thousands of disillusioned youths are turned loose on the land, something is bound to happen. A great howl has arisen about the impracticability of a college education. So great was the howl that our educational authorities (ambiguous euphemism, saving us the embarrassment of distinguishing between faculties and trustees) began to make concessions to its demands. Courses in economics of a more highly specialized character were introduced; Greek and Latin were allowed to go by the boards...
...came across large indentations in the crust of the rain-sodden earth, plainly the footprints of an odd-toed ungulate mammal. Carefully, cautiously, noiselessly the tracks were followed. Several miles they went before the object of their sleuthing was sighted. Crack! spoke the Duke's rifle. With a howl of rage and pain, a rhinoceroes turned and charged at the second son of King George, York reserved his fire. Nearer and nearer the enraged animal came, its head lowered, its two white horns gleaming their deadly significance. Nearer and nearer, 50 yards, 40 yards, 30 yards-crack! a bullet...