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...reforms is to take shape in the destruction of brigands, who have become a pest owing to "The prolongation of the War." The Government's main policy is "to restore economic and financial stability...
...turn taken by various conditioning factors during the remainder of the crop season. The chief reason given for inroads made by the weevil is, that heavy rains in much of the belt have washed from the cotton plants the calcium arsenate placed there to protect them against the pest...
...truly the prize occupation is that of the Monkey Deporter, who is not, as might be supposed, a collector for Ring-ling or the Bronx, but is more like an animated scarecrow. In Northern India, there is a small brown monkey which is a pest to fruit cultivators, but is protected none-the-less by the Hanuman, the Monkey-God. This powerful divinity sends a dire pestilence upon all who injure his suppliants, as seems to have been the fashion with the gods of Greece as well. To avoid such a penalty, the growers have a corps of monkey catchers...
...humanity. In these days when people are willing to walk a mile for a Camel, it is highly important that they be safeguarded against an undue percentage of nicotine; and nowhere can guardians of the general welfare be so properly found as in the colleges. Even the Yale "Pest" would agree that none are better suited. But should this philanthropy be restricted to the comparatively innocuous luxury,--tobacco. No,--as any statesman would say,--a thousand times, no! The self-denial, the courage, the patriotism which inspired these students may be diverted to even more conspicuously beneficial uses...
...same author which struck in an equally agressive fashion at the Faculty and its methods of teaching, the Yale curriculum, and the type of education given at Yale. Along with these two leaders, there appeared in a more or less informal manner a weekly sheet called the "Saturday Evening Pest", which aimed its indictments freely at the fundamental institutions of undergraduate activity...