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...because of the many years of diligent research which it has carried on, and in conclusion said, "the explorers are working under the old law, which provides for the equal division of the objects found between the Museum of Cairo and the discoverer; a system which would seem to destroy any hope of maintaining the whole collection as a unit, which would be the only way in which it can keep its present importance as the complete funeral equipage of an Egyptian King...
Hudson Maxim, the inventor, suggested to the National Cotton Conference for Boll Weevil Control that inasmuch as insects are guided by smell, it might be possible to destroy the boll weevil by baiting traps with the scent of the female. If the method could be developed it might be made effective against the house fly, mosquito, ant, and other pests...
...insults--perhaps not seeing them--is part of the discipline of life. Eventually the questionnaire based on universal distrust will defeat its won end. If the College Office should treat every student as a suspect, it would stimulate in the students generally a desire to circumvent it, and would destroy that frank and friendly intercourse on which its efficiency depends. Can a Committee on Athletics with a similar policy escape a similar fate? I look for the time when Harvard, Yale, and Princeton shall say to one another. "I need know nothing more about the legitimacy of your players than...
...Church they would be ranked with the saintly, "cloud of witnesses". Neither conceptions have much appeal to this age which rather feels it is a question of ideas, an that the sparks from the anvils of many workers have at last lit a cleansing fire which promises to destroy the evils that they hated and leave the air unpolluted, undisturbed, as they would have...
...Freshmen, defending the negative, maintained that the recent Harvard, Yale, Princeton athletic agreement would act as a sufficient regulator; that to destroy the intercollegiate system would be to destroy spirit within the college and to injure relations with rival institutions; and that without outside games, with the revenue that they bring, athletics would be a financial impossibility...