Word: poison
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...Institute professors have had a busy summer. The geologists have been off on the important oil searching parties, the chemists have been working on poison gases and other problems for the government, while the civil and mechanical engineers have had their hands full with the Government schools and the summer schools and the two student camps...
...product and has never been found by merely pursuing it. You are here for a far more serious purpose; to qualify yourself and others for a life work. Get into contact with men and find something in common with them. Avoid mediocrity in all things like poison and strive always to break records, not records of others but your own. Keep your minds bright, sharp, keen, and serviceable tools, and remember that the habit of handling masses of facts and seeing them as they are is the greatest part of life...
...adaptation from "El Afrancesado of Alarcon." It is placed in Padion, Spain at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Garcia, a leading Spanish apothecary, who is suspected of sympathizing with the officers of Napoleon's Army, gives a dinner to them in his apothecary shop. He puts poison in the wine and kills both the officers and himself. The townspeople rush in at the end and then realize his devotion to his country...
...materialistic university which trained a scholar to take both the Graven and the Ireland in England--will violently resent that thought, but you will live and eat and move and have your being in a world dominated by that thought. Some of you will probably succumb to the poison...
...devotees have informed neither themselves nor the public as to the essential facts of community needs and government results. Checks and panaceas of every description have been tried--everything but a constant light; everything but consecutive, cumulative publicity of essential facts. . . . No corrupt or incompetent official will put poison in a baby's milk, pile garbage on his neighbor's doorstep, put his hands in his neighbor's pocket, when his neighbor is looking...