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...very attractive Harvard periodical is really going to lay the axe to the root of the tree, it will need, I think, a bit more weight in the head of the axe and a keener edge to the blade. Or rather, let us revert to entomology. There is an insect something like a gad-Fly, which buzzes just as loudly, and is even more glossy and friendly and inquisitive and circulatory. It bothers some persons, but it never actually bites. It is known as the June-bug. But it will take more than a June-bug to sting the Athenians...
...plan proposed at Chicago it is hoped that at least the first and the third can be detected. The method to be used calls in the aid of the latest of the arts, the "movie". Studies have been made before of the "life of the clam" or the "insect world at work and play", why not of students? The camera will be set up in the study-halls for "close-ups" "slows" and careful analysis of the student mind at work. If a man is on the line, if he needs a C to stay in college and is suspected...
...species is peculiarly worthy of study as a type of pure freak, which occurs like the seven-year locust, at regular intervals. History reports it appeared before as a hybrid insect, related to the late frivolous sheet, "The Harvard Magazine", or the "Mag". There are other instances with which it is needless to irk the student (or if there are not, the art of pseudology is at fault...
...very acute and precarious situation, which has already developed in other more thickly populated part of the world. To meet this, the basic principles upon which the improvement of useful plants and animals depend, must be fully elucidated, and our cultivated crops must be protected against the hordes of insect pests which would ruin them if left to their own devices...
...Theobald Smith was the first one to prove that an infectious disease can be transmitted by an insect. After working with Texas fever, a disease of cattle resembling malaria, he demonstrated that this infection is transmitted from one animal to the next by means of a tick. This discovery, made in 1893, opened up the entire field of insect-borne diseases and soon afterwards Ross discovered that human malaria is transmitted by the mosquito, and Reed, Carrol, and the Army Medical Commission demonstrated that yellow fever is transmitted also by a mosquito. Since then it has been shown that plaque...