Word: congo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Surrounded by friends, Miss Congo, young female gorilla, passed away last week at the John Ringling estate, Sarasota, Fla. For three years she had lived in the U. S., and although her friends were many, she remained always solemn, quiet; some said homesick for the sunny slopes near Lake Kivu in Belgian Congo, where she had been captured. The immediate cause of death was colitis, an intestinal disease often contracted by man, but not often fatal...
...confused with Thomas Fortune Ryan, street-railway consolidator, Congo diamondmine owner, financier...
Solemn and deep-voiced Professor Jabavu, of the South African Native College, pointed out that in his country, while there are five blacks to one white, 88% of educational funds are spent on whites. The Rev. Dr. Charles Pugh, who had come from the Congo Free State, said that in the rural districts there were thousands of people who could read, but that they had no books...
...Harvard Medical School, will show motion pictures in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 7.30 o'clock taken by members of the expedition to Africa from which he returned last fall. He will also speak, comparing the life and customs of the natives in Belgian Congo and in Liberia...
...School. Dr. Strong and Dr. G. C. Shattuck '01 were the two leaders. Their purpose was to make a biological and medical survey of Liberia, that being the country of Africa which was least known in these fields. After spending several months in this region, they proceeded through Belgian Congo to Mount Mombassa on the east coast, in order to complete their data...