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Under the University Museum the same department keeps a smaller collection consisting of 30 garter snakes, a boa constrictor, a copperhead, a dozen turtles, 10 tree frogs, a pair of chamma which is a type of oriental fish, a newt, a crayfish and a few frogs...
...this zoo there are regularly 25 monkeys, 250 mice, 150 rats, six alligators, 45 frogs, three pigeons, a dozen garter snakes, 50 rabbits, 40 guinea pigs, 12 turtles, and two or three dozen Louisiana bullfrogs. This supply is replaced about twice a week. There are also occasional specimens of opossums, woodchucks, chimpanzees, special varieties of monkeys, canaries, racoons, crayfish, and sheep. Once in a while the farm receives rare animals from explorers and they have at present a South American quoquit which resembles a cross between a raccoon and an ant-eater. Also ench winter the farmers of Wakefield...
...takes precedence over all British decorations, including the Order of the Garter. There are 13 other decorations which take precedence over the D.S.O...
...Britain's vast war loan conversion campaign. Prince George did not get the dukedom from his father that British newspapers were expecting, but the hard-working Duke of Gloucester was made a Knight of the Thistle for his good behavior. Lord Lytton was made a Knight of the Garter for his League report on Manchuria...
...haberdashers on the Square, Harvard men lack the courage to venture forth in Old Dame Fashion's latest. This, it was agreed, accounted for the supremacy of Princeton and Yale over Harvard when it comes to setting the styles. Harvard is not style conscious, the Knights of the Garter conceded, and her sons scoff at the new and seemingly "race-trackish" models in clothes, only to adhere to them a year or so later...