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...South Africa, for example, a campaign was waged against hippopotamuses. Deemed useless beasts that merely cluttered up rivers, they were shot on sight. Result: the debilitating disease called schistosomiasis has become as great a public-health hazard in certain areas as malaria was 50 years ago. As usual, the missing links in the chain of events were discovered the hard way. It turns out that hippos keep river silt...
When the late Harvard Undergraduate Council took office last March, we had no money, no facilities to communicate with the student body or the Faculty. That rendered our position during the crisis of last Spring next to useless when as a student representative organization we should have assumed a meaningful role, interpreting the issues which concerned the Harvard community. Since the incidents of last Spring, the treasurer of the H. U. C., Peter Bernbaum, and I began an extensive program to raise funds in order to establish some semblance of student representation at Harvard College...
...termed) student representative organizations and as one who framed the proposals which will appear before the student body on registration day, I would like to make my position clear. If the student body votes to establish the new council but not fund it, it will render the new Council useless. In effect, the student body will be setting up an organization which, while it will represent important points of view, will not have the facilities to communicate with its constituency...
...James A. Shapiro, research fellow in Bacteriology and Immunology, yesterday said, "Whatever I could do in the lab is useless at this time. The only constructive thing that people can do right now is to challenge the present political system...
...faith." As a result, the Germans learned little of consequence. Another reason for the failure of Nazi espionage may well have been Teutonic overkill. No fewer than five separate Nazi agencies had spies in Rome. Much of the information they provided was so contradictory that it was useless...