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...whose creators kept him alive for nearly four years by enrolling for extra courses under his name until five of them accidentally signed chapel cards for him the same day.* In one of his stories Princeton's Author F. Scott Fitzgerald changed Joe Gish into an ape. Last week it was revealed that all this spring a band of prankish seniors at Iowa State College (Ames) had actually persuaded their psychology, botany and chemistry instructors of the existence of an A-rating student named Cuthbert Gleep...
...Ape Addicts. At his famed colony of chimpanzees in Florida, Psychologist Robert Yerkes of Yale proved that other animals besides man could become drug fiends. With evident gusto, dapper Dr. Yerkes told the philosophers how he had made morphine addicts of two male apes eight years old. After the animals became reconciled to having their flesh pricked by dummy syringes, they were daily given one milligram of morphine per kilogram of body weight and the dose was increased to four milligrams (a much smaller intake than that of human addicts). Symptoms of addiction were increased "grooming" (scratching, skin picking, hair...
Declaring that this fossil discovery was the half-way point between man and his ape ancestors, de Chardin, a Catholic priest, feels that this "Peking Man" is definitely not an ape fossil but a man's. He went on to illustrate his belief by showing the tools found with the remains which point to an intelligence above any animals...
...according to nationality. "While there is, of course, no unanimity of opinion as to man's origin among the German students, it is worthy of note that the prevalent and perhaps predominant sentiment of Ger man anthropologists is and has been for a number of decades decidedly pro-ape. . . . If the Germans are on the side of the apes, the English have arrayed themselves almost solidly on the side of the angels. Thus the opinion of Sir Arthur Keith and Le Gros Clark separates the human stock from the anthropoid trunk as far back as the Oligocene period...
...virtuoso of arboreal acrobatics, the gibbon is a small, flat-faced ape which inhabits southeastern Asia. It is a "key animal" in primate evolution because it is more at ease on two legs than any other ape or monkey, because of its cerebral affinities with man and the great anthropoid apes, and because of its well-developed social and monogamic habits. Yet less is known of the gibbon in its wild state than about any other primate of comparable importance. Therefore Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson. N. Y.) have organized an expedition to study this little...