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When he landed in Cuba, Columbus discovered "a dog that didn't bark." Barking, like kissing and sending Christmas cards, is a social habit fostered-for better or worse-by civilization. Wild dogs never bark, and among primitive peoples even house pets and hunting dogs seldom speak above a dignified growl...
...sheer inertia, the College has permitted the seven weeks' hurdle to carry over into a term in which it has manifestly become a nuisance. What is inertia now may become habit by fall--examinations are an historic vice of administration offices. At its next meeting, the Faculty should vote to abolish the seven weeks' rule...
Life Begins at 50. After four long years, Rouault quit his job to study with famed Academician Gustave Moreau. Moreau taught young Rouault all he knew about painting and did his best to break Rouault's habit of moping about in cemeteries after school. When Moreau died, his house was turned into a memorial museum and Rouault, as the favorite pupil, was appointed curator. The sinecure kept Rouault going; his art sold hardly at all until he was past...
...Custodians of the Statue of Liberty were giving the inside of the old lady a coat of hard enamel and planned to enclose the stair in wire netting. Reason: visitors have had a habit of scrawling their names on the wall in kissproof, scrubproof lipstick...
...eternity, where they have rested for some 300 years, some strange figures were exposed to 20th Century stares in the Mexican village of Tepepan last week. Workmen, removing the floor of an ancient church, disclosed 20 bodies, most of them dressed in priestly garb or nun's habit. All were mummified and remarkably preserved. But nobody was quite sure how they came to be there or what to do with them next...