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...travels, Geologist Willis talked of animals as well as rocks. "Never in my knowledge was I in any danger," said he. "But I took a hunter along as life insurance in certain districts . . . lions are not particularly dangerous. They are generally so well fed they don't bother you. Driving along we scared seven off their kill beside the road. All ran away except the 'old man,' who wagged his tail back and forth. But we didn't try to twist...
When Professor Browne's students went to his classroom last week, they were surprised to find his door closed. Fixed upon it was this sign: "The papers from the class are the poorest I ever got in 20 years of teaching. ... It would be wise not to bother me for the rest of the week, which I must spend in humiliation and prayer...
Perfunctory was the opening last week of the first regular session of the 71st Congress. The Senate sat only seven minutes. Because of bad weather, elder legislators did not bother to attend. First business on the Senate calendar: the Vare case...
...very midst of their lives instead of only on the classroom fringe-for the so-called "inner-college" plan provides professors' rooms in the dormitories. This may prove a valuable stimulus to that class of students inherently brilliant, but also lazy, who would like to know some bother to find them...
Without letting it bother me an awful lot, I always thought of football scouting as being a pretty low device and I wondered why colleges would agree to scout and be scouted. As long as there was an agreement between the A. A's of the different universities, there was nothing much to be said about the situation except that a football scout was a questionable individual much like a cigar-passing Washington lobbyist. I imagined him to be a small, dark haired man with a false mustache and an evil...