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...indescribable picture," said a rescuer who helped prop one wing up with fenceposts to drag out victims. "Men were crying, 'Get me out!' and 'Oh, God, why doesn't somebody do something...
...brown paw, pulled Tony into the cage. While the other two urchins yelled and threw mud, small Brother John picked up a piece of iron pipe, squeezed through the bars. With all his might he smacked Lillian across her tender snout. Howling, the bear backed off, let an attendant drag the badly-mauled Tony to safety...
...honors vs. Pass-degree scheme. Some of my best honor men have not found the subject until the Sophomore year and have not awakened to recognition of their own power till their Junior year. Dare we risk losing such men even though to find them, we must drag along the intellectually uncurious? I should prefer to tutor every man as intensively as he desires, and then have no regrets over those who fail the divisional examinations. (But of course if the tutoring system is merely a substitute for the widow, I have the wrong slant on everything...
...concluded that a kingfisher must have carried the catfish aloft. Not even a climbing perch (Anabas scandens) could have shinnied up 40 ft. A small, dark green fish with dusky bands, the climbing perch inhabits Far Eastern estuaries and rivers. It can wrap its pectoral fins around grass stems, drag itself long distances. Why it wants to go overland, no one knows...
...advised them to turn to something else than college work. As a result, the number of Freshmen readmitted for the year 1932-33 has been reduce more satisfactory results we should give up readmission of Freshmen except in very special cases, because many of these men are a drag on the College and profit little from college work...