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...MOST armchair explorers are like the reviewer, they will imagine that the danger of the jungle lies in the ferocious beasts that slink about among the undergrowth. Such, as anyone who reads "Green Hell" will find out, is not the case. Insects clouds of them are the real bete noire of the adventurer, and the smaller they are the worse they...
...transition from chivalry and castles to realism and red lights is not too severe for the Vagabond's gentle tastes, he will follow Professor Murdock across the yard, keeping out of sight as a well-bred Vagabond should, and slink into Sever 11 to listen to Professor Murdock on Mark Twain...
...Captain Brennan said that he was also at a loss to think of a plan of action that might be employed in the war on the felines. He suggested that he might call for volunteers among his men to form a "bean blower squad" and detail them to slink around the alleys and yards of the terrace and inflict their ammunition upon the molesting chorus. The only objection to this method is that it will not make for the permanent removal of the feline songsters from Cambridge. Captain Brennan however promised that the molesters would be removed as soon...
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...despised; they will be admired. On the day when the London newsboys are heard shouting "Oriental Languages "Result!" or "Natural Philosophy Winners!" a new era will have begun. No athlete will any longer conceal his possession of a good brain and a taste for reading. No student need slink apologetically across the quad, feeling himself useless to his college and his university. No publisher or theatrical manager will dare to use "intellectual" as a term of reproach; and no smart, uneducated worldling will sneer at the "academic" futility of the university man. But in order that the Harvard-Yale idea...