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...brains of apes and monkeys, showed that the size and complexity of the brain is directly proportioned to its ability to use its hands for handling objects, rather than for locomotion. The gorilla has retrograded in some respects. Once it was an arboreal ape, and walked nearly erect. But its increasing weight (300 pounds) drove it from the trees to the ground to seek fodder on the surface; its hind legs were not able to support its body alone, so now it uses its arms as crutches, more like a quadruped...
...Passed a pension bill increasing pensions of widows of Civil War veterans, excepting those who married after June 27, 1907. ¶Confirmed the nomination of Alfred J. Pearson to be Minister to Poland (TIME, April 7). ¶ Passed a resolution permitting the American League of Professional Baseball Clubs to erect in Washington a monument to baseball...
Richard Strauss, famed composer, will erect a villa in Vienna. He has just been given a site in one of the public parks and a contract making him Director of the Vienna State Opera. He will occupy the villa at least ten years, the time covered by the contract...
Describing President Eliot at his in augural Professor Emerton '71, writing in the "Harvard Graduates' Magazine," says, "His commanding figure, erect and alert, his noble voice, once heard never to be forgotten, the persuasive authority of his manner, free then as always from all elocutionary trickery, the forceful simplicity of his language, all combined to produce upon us the sense of a new era about to dawn...
...have been other portraits of President Eliot including Mr. Sargent's full length portrait," he continued, "but none of them, it is fair to say, have caught the spirit of Mr. Eliot so successfully as Mr. Hopkinson's. The general effect of the picture is columnar. The President sits erect looking straight out of the picture with the characteristic frank, forcible and penetrating look in his eyes. The picture was painted three years ago, and so it represents President Eliot as an older man than the average graduate remembers him, but as we all know time has shot its bolts...