Word: habitats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This affords a temporary habitat for the day scholars, who were recently forbidden the future use of Phillips Brooks House, in which they have swarmed for many years. Whether the accomodations will be made permanent, and whether the whole of Dudley Hall will eventually be given over to non-residents, has not been decided...
Members of the Corporation are still purring over the rare specimen, known as Conant, that they bagged two years ago. While his habitat turned out to be the Converse Laboratory, he is quite human and promises to make as good a President as Harvard has ever had. Evidently, this in the last expedition which has been planned for the next decade or so; if one excepts an occasional safari to keep in trim, such as an honorary degree to another Al Smith...
...insurmountable barrier to this project. The educational advantages to be gained are too obvious for mention. But whether regarded from the purely cultural standpoint or looked upon merely as an opportunity for the undergraduate scholar to see and hear a difficult foreign tongue as spoken in its native habitat, the introduction of a series of well selected German films would serve a definite purpose in Cambridge. As it is not permitted to charge admission at the Geography Building, it might be possible at each performance to take up a collection to defray the expenses of what should prove...
...Manhattan's American Museum. For the past 25 years he has been the Museum's curator-in-chief of birds. He has done as much as any man living to teach his countrymen to know and love birds. He originated the Museum's brilliantly realistic habitat groups; founded a magazine Bird-Lore; lectured widely; composed standard guides and handbooks for amateurs...
...sullen hunger strike. Attempts at forced feeding numb it with rage, paralyze its digestion. It starves to death in four or five months. Snakeman March, now possessor of the only known bushmaster in captivity, may have better luck since he will keep his catch in its native habitat...