Word: tailed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...exert in increasing the study of Greek is hard to say. At present most of those who are studying Greek are doing so to teach it later; and so it goes on, teachers instructing future teachers. This state of affairs may be likened to a dog chasing its own tail and finally dropping exhausted through his efforts. The aversion for the Greek may be too fundamental to be eliminated by a subsidy on the subject in the form of fewer requirements for admission to College. However, results will be watched with great interest. The second change initiated by the modified...
...college elm which for over a hundred years has stood, in the quadrangle between Harvard Hall, Hollis Hall, and Holden Chapel will not be entirely destroyed. For several years the branches have been gradually cut off as the brown tail moths and beetles attacked it until today only the trunk itself remains. This has been scraped and after being well-oiled and painted will have ivy planted about...
...Underwood has acted as lecturer in the biological department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1900, and is an authority on questions relating to the lumber industry in Maine, the extermination of the gypsy and brown tail moths, and other problems of animal life...
...when we twist that Bulldog's tail...
...when we twist that Bulldog's tail...