Yapping loudly at the University of Illinois for many a month have been two self-appointed watchdogs of the public purse: O. S. Hitchner of Freeport and C. O. Ellis of Grayville. Watchdogs Hitchner & Ellis sniff out academic extravagance, then send pamphlets about it to Illinois newspapers and taxpayers. Recently they pounced upon Professor Alvin Robert Cahn of the Zoology Department, told how he spent the summer of 1932 in northern Minnesota investigating a tick which infested the moose of that region. Pamphleteers Hitchner & Ellis scornfully "estimated" that "this louse hunter"...
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