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...accomplishments of the National Scholarship men in Harvard College indicate that they have been a representative group who have not only done well in their academic work but have also been active in extra-curricular affairs and have exerted a significant influence on the genera life of the College. For example, two of the recent Student Council president have been National Scholars. The possible renewal of the scholarships at the end of the Freshman year for the remainder of the college course relieves the student of certain worry and pressure and makes it possible for him to devote his attention...
Shoved in to replace Badoglio was Genera Ugo Cavallero, 60, a seasoned soldier, now double-chinned and pince-nezed, whom Mussolini trusted in 1925-28 as Under Secretary of War (Benito was Minister) and builder-upper of the modern Italian Army; again in 1938-39 as Army chief (under the Duke of Aosta) in Ethiopia. General Cavallero's acceptability to the Germans is high. He has had time out from his military career to make a success of running war industries (rubber, planes, steel). Lately he has been chief liaison man with the German General Staff. His promotion...
...bulldog, had cost his owner a reputed $12,000 at a recent London sale. In the rings were many other strange-sounding foreign breeds : Keeshonden, kuvasz, komondorock,* Rottweilers, Salukis, Pulis, papillons and bouviers des Flandres. But they were outnumbered by dachshunds, Scotties, beagles, collies, terriers, spaniels - breeds beloved by genera tions of U. S. dog lovers...
...taxonomy is always arbitrary because species, genera and families tend to merge into one another. So many "missing links" have been found by paleontologists that an exact dividing line between humans and apes is almost nonexistent. Pithecanthropus erectus, the Javanese oldster regarded by most authorities as a very apish man, is called an apeman. In the past two years Dr. Robert Broom of Pretoria's Transvaal Museum has found in South Africa the fossil remains of two very manlike apes which have been called man-apes...
...Admission to the human family-the family of hominidae-does not include a label as Homo sapiens, the species in which all modern men are grouped. Pithecanthropus and Sinanthropus not only belong to different species but to different genera. Such later types as the Neanderthal and Heidelberg men belong to the same genus as modern man but to different species. First indubitable representatives of Homo sapiens were the tall, artistic Cromagnons who flourished in Europe some 25,000 years ago, after the Neanderthalers had disappeared...