Word: pest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...more conservative and ready to venerate tradition than the Senior. Hence it is worthy of note that the Yard-dwellers unanimously concur in denouncing the unholy jangle which startles their slumbers every morning at 7 o'clock. It seemed impossible that such an apparently useless pest should be continuously perpetrated unless there were some good reason; and hence the CRIMSON long resisted the insistent request of many men to voice their execration of the nuisance. But inquiry seems to show that it rests upon a tradition, which has persisted after its use has long vanished...
...group realizes that they will be exposed to far more danger than if they were fighting in the trenches, for one bite from a louse, the vermin which carries the typhus, is considered fatal. The spirit and courage of the men who have volunteered to fight this pest which is now ravaging Servia, is, as Professor Sedgwick and others have remarked, nothing short of heroic...
...that so much attention has been given to the brown-tailed moth, the elm-tree panther (or whatever it is,) and other pests in the Yard, why not rid it of that human pest called the insurance drummer? He stands around, enters Sever, and our very class-rooms in his impudence, he pounces on instructors and students, dreaded by all, a babbling symbol of the imminence of death. Can we not even in the privacy of our work-rooms eschew the cringing advances of this infernal nuisance? Is it not within the authority of our excellent "Yard Cops" to expel...
...trees of the Yard have been practically free from insect pests in past years and it is only during the last few years that there has been any trouble at all. The first troublesome insect was the elm-leaf beetle. It is a small beetle which feeds on the leaves of the elms, in its larval stage, appearing in such numbers as to strip the trees entirely of their foliage, thereby killing them. The trees in the west part of the Yard were attacked by this pest and considerable damage was done before they were overcome...
...leopard moth, which was first noticed in June 1909 is an imported European pest, and is only injurious in its larval stage. The life of the larva is two years. It makes its way into the tree by boring through the bark where it may make great furrows in the growing layer, thus girding the limbs, or it may burrow deeper into the heart of the tree. Its burrows show that it migrates often, from one part of a branch to another or to a different one altogether...