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There are many and vital movements which the undergraduate should either take part in or take pot shots at. The Student Federation to some is important, to others as worthwhile as, a motorman on a dinosaur. The Debating Union could well indulge in debate on the Federation's merits. They could have pondered forensically the worth of the Student Friendship Drive--and, at least, someone would have understood why he was contributing. But the Debating Union is content to mangle Mencken or adjudge the capacity for boiled eggs of the average publicity seeker. Perhaps that is their ultimate. One could...
...following groups failed to receive rooms in the draw: Passionate Shepherds, Dinosaur's Dozen, The Anti-Disestablishment Society, Young Woodley, John J. James, Sextet of Lucia (group of six enclosed in an application of 18), Six Mosquitoes, Aristotle, The Green Fan, Erasmus Scroggs, Browning J. A. V., Lionel Lee, Yan, Albert Seewald, George O. N., Jonson and Boswell, The Nobles, Me, Alfred A. Lunt, John M. Hanoe, Osiris, Wireless Willy, The Skipper, Mayfair, O. Henry (single applicant), Bel Enfant, Alfred Augustus Baker, Los Vaqueros, Watt Hour Meter, Caesar, John X. Stevenson, Jaina Square, Mr. Micawber, The Triple Threat, Charles Hawkins...
Farther north in this state, an expedition financed by .Edward L. (oil) Doheny, found dinosaur tracks and animal pictures in the Grand Canyon...
...back to the American Museum of Natural History with plunder from Mongolian beds where "the fossils were so thick they almost interlaced." Paleontologist Andrews shares the view of many a scientist that Mid-Asia was the birthplace and distribution centre of mammalia. His chief finds: many more fossil dinosaur eggs (two years ago he fetched several dozen); several baluchitherium (early rhinoceros) skulls; an unknown two-horned fossil, seemingly a primitive giraffe; some marsupial (pouched) types; and traces of a human civilization that went from Europe into Asia...
According to Associate Professor K. F. Mather, the discovery of relics of prehistoric times in the Connecticut River Valley is nothing new. Besides the tracks of such ancient animals as the dinosaur, bones have been found that have enabled archeologists to obtain very accurate skeletons of the creatures that trod New England thousands of years...