Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This message marks an important day in the growth of the school. For in past years, when all who applied for admission to the school were let in, provided only that they held college degrees, it was necessary to weed out a large portion of each class at the end of the first year, a portion sometimes running up to thirty percent of the enrolment. The result of this drastic cut, despite the fact that it allowed the University to collect tuition fees for a year from the men whom it could take to the completion of their training, meant...
...cattle tick, unengorged, is about 1/10 by 1/20 of an inch. It is light yellowish or light greyish brown. The hatching larvae crawl up grass or weed stems and attach themselves to a passing animal. There they grow to adulthood in about 30 days, living on the blood of the host. They mate on the host, the female drops to the ground, lays her eggs, and dies. Fever induced by the tick kills cattle, stunts them, lowers their milk flow, damages their skins and hides...
...daughter who was christened Virginia, first child born to English parents in the present U. S. Virginia Dare was nine days old when Governor White left his colony to sail back to England for more money and settlers. When he returned four years later, Fort Raleigh was a deserted, weed-covered ruin. Sole explanation was the Indian word CROATOAN, cut into a post beside the gate...
When Mrs. Faye Larrison of Caldwell, Ohio was tending her garden, she said, she pulled up a weed encircled by a gold ring. Looking inside she saw the name Zachary Lansdowne. Thus, twelve years after the crash of the U. S. dirigible Shenandoah, was found the Annapolis class ring of its dead commander. The Navy Department and Commander Lansdowne's friend J. Edgar Hoover had been trying to find the ring since 1925, get it back to his widow, who has since remarried...
...Miller '35, 2L; Russell A. Nixon 2G; Rodman W. Paul '36, 1G; Reginald H. Phelps '30, 6G; Joseph H. Phillips '35, 2M; Dale Pontius, assistant in Government; Stephen H. Stackpole '33, secretary to the President; Oscar Sutermeister '32, 1G; Robert R. Walcott '31, assistant in History; Roger H. Weed '34, 1L; and Arthur Wild...