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Councilman J. Gordon Duffy thought it would take twelve horses. The rest of the Council decided that for 8,000 Harvardmen six horses would be plenty...
Until last month there were only four live Komodo lizards in captivity, two in London, one in Amsterdam, one in Berlin. In 1926 Naturalist Douglas Burden brought two to Bronx Zoo, but they pined away in 40 days. Last week's arrivals were escorted by two young Harvardmen, Lawrence Tarleton Knutsford Griswold and William Harvest Harkness, who captured 43 lizards on Komodo in box traps baited with deer carcasses. They loosed all but eight, gave four by agreement to Java's Sourabaya Zoo. One of the remaining four died of seasickness...
President. Boston has heard two versions of James Bryant Conant's accession to Harvard's presidency. Most Harvardmen believe that the university's governing Corporation listed faculty eligibles, cast about the country for non-Harvard opinion on them, was overwhelmed by praises of Conant. Outsiders say that the Corporation was definitely disturbed at Harvard's waning intellectual prestige, wanted a vigorous, young devotee of scholarship to restore and strengthen...
...warm friend since boyhood, was best man at his wedding. But their relations were strained for a time last year by James Conant's shy embarrassment when, not long after congratulating Friend Murdock on his certain election to Harvard's presidency, he himself got the job. Some Harvardmen think "Cotton-top" Murdock might be president today if early Lowell backing had not exposed him to attack...
...sped up the academic ladder-associate professor of chemistry in 1925, full professor in 1927, head of his department in 1931. Students found him harddriving, businesslike, admired his vast authority. Meantime he was deep in the chemical researches which in time made European scientists first ask visiting Harvardmen: "What's Conant doing...