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...Homo Rhodesiensis. Found buried in a cave in Rhodesia were a skull and other bones. The creature to whom they belonged was probably 6 ft. tall and walked erect. His age is dubious. Perhaps he was a primitive man who survived until a few thousand years ago.† ¶CrÔ-Magnon,Man. Many complete specimens of this race have been found in European caves. It is the first regarded as homo sapiens. The males average 6 ft. 1 in., the females 5 ft. 5 in. They existed perhaps 25,000 years ago. They stood erect, had a brain...
...Chicago, an infant's crèche was opened by the city's University. Small persons of three, four and five years, instead of keeping their doting parents at home by their screechings and other forms of infantile hilarity, can now be left to exercise their lungs as they see fit in a day nursery, while fathers and mothers attend to the sterner matters of life in the lecture room...
...Coolidge's gown for the reception was described as "rust colored satin-faced crêpe, made on a narrow tube foundation, with a single piece of drapery crossing the skirt at the hips in plain, close lines so as to give a jabot effect in front ... an enameled buckle of rust and jade . . . sleeves long and close-fitting, the neckline square in front with high shoulders . . . string of small jade beads . . . gown eight or possibly nine inches off the floor . . . satin pumps and hosiery of the same neutral tones, with pumps darker than the hosiery...
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...only examination being a general one in the chosen field. Many students find the routine of regular atterdance and frequent questionershard to take. I say the professors find it equally vigorous. In England a well known teacher is net subjected to as great burdens of either large classes cr many courses as in America but I think this University approaches nearer the model of English colleges in that respect than any I have visited in this country...