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...recent warm weather has brought a pest of brown-tailed gypsy moths, which as in former years, has been of great danger to the Yard trees, Measures have, however, been taken to protect the trees by a thorough application of creosote taroil which has been sprinkled over the trunks and branches...
...only one thing to do: Keep him off the University grounds. Then, when he is caught red-handed in a theft, turn him over to the police to be made an example of. This is the advice of the police themselves. The recent success of shutting this little pest out of Yard concerts, only shows how unnecessarily long suffering we have been. UNDERGRADUATE...
...department of Stanford University, California, has just returned from a trip to Japan, his native country, where he has been pursuing successful researches in economic entomology. He has found six varieties of insects, all of which prey upon and eradicate the San Jose scale, America's most dangerous fruit pest...
...purposes. The objections to this plan are many; the Board of Directors of Memorial have stated the more important ones Apparently, then, the table d' hote-a la carte system will not satisfy the great masses of men who are seeking a second Memorial Hall and one without the pest...
...writer in the last number of the Advocate in defending the policy of the paper under the new management says that its purpose will be "to combat, not foster the growing spirit of Harvard indifference, than which no worst pest was ever sent from below," This certainly is a very worthy endeavor, but we feel that the writer has made an implication which is decidedly untrue to college life at present . We wonder on what grounds the Advocate can maintain that there is a growing spirit of "Harvard indifference," The term is one which we believed had almost passed...