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...question about it, pre-meds are a special breed of Harvard man. They are the people who raise the curve in Physics 1, who talk ceaselessly about the last Chem 20 exam at breakfast, and who gather in little worried groups to discuss chances of acceptance to med school. Strangely enough, the fact that pre-meds constitute a class by themselves is recognized by everyone except the University. "We have no pre-medical student," intones the voice of University Hall, "only Chemistry concentrators or Biology concentrators or History and Lit. concentrators. There is no such thing...
Reptile Curator James Oliver of New York's Bronx Zoo is impatiently awaiting his tuatara. The scaly, sluggish beasts are so ancient a breed, he says, that their forebears flourished when the sea was full of icthyosaurs. They were stepped on by dinosaurs, and their young were probably snatched by flying, reptilian pterodactyls. Some experts believe that all modern snakes and lizards are descended from the tuatara's order (Rhynchocephalia...
Curator Oliver would like to breed tuataras in the Bronx Zoo, but they have no external sexual characteristics. The only way to distinguish males from females is to wait for the mating season, when the tuataras, croaking, make their own decisions. New Zealand is not yet ready to release enough tuataras for this auto-selection experiment...
...beyond Do What Thou Wilt"-and this Crowley proceeded to do. One of his first acts of freedom was to set "Beelzebub and his 49 servitors" after the leader of the Order of the Golden Dawn. Another was his baking of sacred "Cakes of Light ... to breed lust" in all who ate them. To this period, too, belongs the slim volume of pornographic poems entitled Snowdrops from a Curate's Garden...
...confused with a statue in the Louvre, this Venus is a cow. The hero, David Niven, sheds his kilts to bring the captive back to England (because she is a rare breed and important to the war effort). On the way over, by submarine naturally, he picks up pert Glynis Johns, who is one of the Island's rulers masquerading as an army cook, as well as the oddest expeditionary force in movie history. On the way back Venus has a calf and David and Glynis discover true love. But it's in between the going over and the coming...