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...free themselves from the necessity of eating a disproportionate number of lunches and dinners there. Since these are the meals which are normally the ones to be taken in clubs, or in some convenient location in the square or near a Boston theatre, no outstanding advantage is to be found in the present compromise...
...June, 1928, during the two year period ending last spring, 120 books have been lost. Of the separate departments, Government has lost 50, Economics has lost 45, and 25 have disappeared from the collection of History books. In one instance, out of a set of ten books, seven were found to be missing after a year. All of these have had to be replaced...
...measure much larger than is apparent at first sight, has been a contributing cause to the destruction of class solidity and in its way will be an invaluable aid to the success of the new experiment. If, without the express wish of the College authorities, men have found it convenient and satisfactory to retain their rooms for three years, this feature, an essential detail in the new scheme, augurs well for the success of the whole system...
Naturalists, reading the descriptions of specimens which followed that found by Savage, compared these descriptions with their specimens and found great variations. New "species" were named after their discoverers, and competition between museum and museum grew up to secure "firsts" of new species...
...measurements showed sufficiently great differences between regions to warrant calling them different subspecies. Study of the curves forced him to divide the species into Gorilla gorilla gorilla (Savage & Wyman) or Coast, and Gorilla gorilla beringei (Matschie) or Mountain. It happens that the first of these races is the one found on the West Coast of Central Africa and the second race is found in the mountains of the Eastern Congo separated from the first by 750 miles of tropical jungle...