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Lantern slides will be employed to show the development of the Yard from the cow pastures and farm yards which were located there during Harvard's early years. The meeting will be sponsored by the Harvard Memorial Society...
...Adventure" department, founded 18 years ago with a board of seven experts to answer readers' questions. Today 98 experts in all corners of the world answer such ques-tions as whether a Gila monster's bite is fatal, whether a snake can milk a cow, the status of slavery in Ethiopia, the hazards of existence in the Everglades, the respective fighting merits of lions and gorillas. For replying to sharp-eyed readers the experts get 50? per answer. Few members of the Explorers' Club can find technical fault with Adventure's fiction. That they might find...
...whose familiarity with bronco-riding has been gained from newsreels which show riders only as they are falling off, are inclined to suppose that to fall is the object of the event. Consequently, Cowboy Schneider became a hero with the gallery. More accustomed to piebald Shetlands than to angry cow-ponies, he failed to last the minimum ten seconds in his first six attempts. Less daring than Brooklyn's famed matador, Sidney Frumkin (Sidney Franklin), Cowboy Schneider has tried riding steers but never wrestled one. Leading contestants after the event was a week old were Bulldogger Dick Shelton -once...
...greatest modern army Africa has ever seen was about to show its might against an unfortified cow village, and back in Rome editors plated great victory headlines for their papers and crowds milled through the streets, eager to celebrate. But hours passed, and the news did not come...
...Primitives," says Dr. Lévy-Bruhl, "do not classify the entities in nature as clearly marked out from each other." Hence the "dispositions" of animals, plants and inanimate things are as noteworthy as the attitudes of men. The Bahima of the Nile will not boil milk lest the cow be displeased and give no more. Eskimos, who consider animals much wiser than men, believe that seals are perpetually thirsty because they inhabit salt water. Accordingly when they kill a seal the first thing to do is douse a dipperful of fresh water into the seal's mouth...