Word: leopards
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...parts." It is a striking picture that the professor draws; this lust for learning this avid, eager eating up of elegance, this relentless pursuit of the humanities. With exultant whoops the Western young folks gulp minor poetry and major essays, studies, sketches, belles-lettres, no more than the snow leopard, the wildcat and lynx, can escape them. As the professor says, they "go after belles-lettres," do the Western young folk, but an East bound down by tradition will wonder why the professor didn't leave it to the furnace-man to express it in just that way. --The Boston...
Colder than leopard's eyes...
...preserve those trees which are still alive. A number of them were trimmed during the summer and the deadwood is now being removed from the remaining trees. The dead trees and decayed wood was found to afford breeding places for such pests as the bark beetle and the leopard moth and so the utmost care has been exercised in removing as much of this as possible...
...poor condition of the elm trees in and about the Yard has made radical changes necessary. The trees have been attacked by the leopard moth, which bores into the wood, making any attempt at their extermination practically impossible. Moreover, work on the subway and the sewerage system in Harvard square has been injurious to the trees, as much moisture is drained off, thus making them more susceptible to the attack of the moths...
...work of determining the life histories of these insects is being carried on as speedily as conditions will permit. Plans are also being made to put out trap trees and electric light traps in the spring. Further it is hoped that parasites of the leopard moth can be procured from Europe. And it has already been tried and so far has resulted in failure, because the larvae are very hard to find during the winter...