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...William Thayer of Boston, a philanthropist who had endowed Agassiz Zoological Museum, and the Herbarium came into being under the leadership of Doctor Gray, who ambitiously despatched specimen collectors all over the globe, and who himself engaged in careful research work and carried on a detailed correspondence with Darwin and other prominent scientists of the period. At present, the Herbarium is under the direction of Merritt L. Fernald '97. Fisher Professor of Natural History...
Since your language seems to be that of an inspiring veterinary, I shall attempt to write along the same zoological lines. The evolution of the Harvard man seems to disprove Mr. Darwin's theory; you boys are going in the opposite direction. You virile young four F's! The only reason those Shephard Street girls would look at a Harvard man twice would be because they couldn't believe it the first time...
Theory. In St. Louis, Zoo Director George Vierheller looked Little Kuyon in the eye, wondered about Darwin...
...become daily breath) some of the strange poetry of war: "I was suddenly close to the smallest and lowest creatures, the insects and worms, everything that crawled and writhed humbly and flatly on the ground." The worms went on about their business while the shells exploded (they are, as Darwin learned, quite deaf), the bees hummed, and now and then, between explosions, a bird sang. "It sometimes seemed that we were already in our graves, half alive and half dead: and most curiously, the whistling shells meant life and the buzzing bees and singing birds meant death...
Herbert Morrison, Minister of Home Security and Home Secretary. "Herbert is a Cockney." He was born in Lambeth, "son of a policeman and a housemaid." There he studied "Marx, Engels, Darwin and Vandervelde...