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...College Royal Gaboon, the Pitt Panther, the Lehigh Burr, the Columbia Jester, the Rutgers Chanticleer, the Johns Hopkins Black and Blue Jay, the Carnegie Tech Puppet, the New York University Medley, the Boston University Bean Pot, the Williams Purple Cow, the Middlebury Baboon, the Amherst Lord Jeff, the Wesleyan Wasp, the Lafayette Liar and the Stevens Stone Mill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE COMICS OF EAST VISIT LAMPOON | 12/13/1924 | See Source »

...Scorpion is typical both of his method as a naturalist and of the charm of his style-a style which fascinates many a reader to whom a technical book on entomology would be anathema. The other insects that he studied include the spider, fly, mason-bee, bramble-bee, hunting wasp, ant, grasshopper, caterpillar, mason-wasp, weevil, glowworm, sacred beetle and other beetles. Fabre struggled for nearly 40 years, teaching physics, chemistry and mathematics (not the subjects that he loved) in provincial schools in Corsica and Avignon and writing textbooks to raise a large family and secure a modest competence that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Scorpions | 11/12/1923 | See Source »

...long afterward Keck launched his own personal 6-play offensive, when Owen's kick was blocked. The ball careened over to the other corner of the field, pursued by Legendre, Owen and another Wasp-leg. The latter duplicated the feat of Garrity in the Yale game last year when his interference made it possible for Scheerer to carry his recovered fumble for a touchdown. Legendre passed on and fell on the ball. Two plays afterwards, Garrity waded through a huge hole behind Keck, hurled himself on his neck and snuggled around the pigskin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY AND JUNGALEERS BATTLE TO DEADLOCK BEFORE 40,000 INMAT | 11/8/1920 | See Source »

...Lohegrin," Wagner 6. Waltz, "Harlequin's Journey," Zach 7. Tarantelle for Flute, Clarinet, and Orchestra, Saint-Saens Messrs. Maquarre and Lebailly. 8. Selection, "The Fencing Master," De Koven 9. Offenbachiana, Conradi 10. a. Gavotte from "Manon," Massenet b. Danse Des Bacchantes, from "Philemon and Baucis," Gounod 11. Galop, "Wasp Nest," Zach 12. March, "Ameer," Herbert

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Pop Concert. | 5/28/1902 | See Source »

...steel engraving of it was put each year in the catalogue, - and on one side of this room were a couple of dozen bottles, some test-tubes, and an air-pump; on another side were some rocks, a few fossil bones dug up in the neighborhood, and a huge wasp's-nest presented by one of the students; on the third side was the library, consisting of about four hundred volumes, mostly publications of the American Tract Society; a large picture of the founder of the College, - a red-faced man gazing thoughtfully into the distance while an open volume...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHY I DON'T ELECT CHEMISTRY. | 4/19/1878 | See Source »

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