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Sixty times in Canada's Buffalo National Park one day last week Assistant Game Warden Samuel Purshell raised his rifle, aimed, fired. At rundown 60 buffalo lay dead. Next day, as eleven herd riders drove more shaggy victims into the huge enclosure where he worked. Warden Purshell repeated his butchery. Progressing at the rate of 60 animals per day, his goal was 1,500 dead buffalo...
...Lappland, about 50 mil distant (about 300 English miles.) After two days train ride across to Happaranda I joined my friend Lapp Linnen in his Lapp Kojja (cabin) where we rested in anticipation of a Reindeer hunt the following day. Early dawn found us on the trail of a herd, prepared for six to seven hours journey...
Briefly, Dr. Little asked Dr. Slye to give, loan or sell to some neutral institution a herd of male mice which she would certify as having no tendency to cancer in their makeup. Then he would give 1,000 of his cancer-susceptible female mice for breeding at a neutral institution. Children of those matings would be bred, brother to sister...
...preparation along these lines will repay the individual many times over. When one remembers that the University can be represented every bit at ably by means of non-organized athletics the incentive should prove strong to turn to the courts or the swimming pool rather than blindly follow the herd onto the grid-iron or the hockey-rink. Organized athletics are normally and naturally the corner-stone of Harvard's outdoor life, but it cannot be too strongly urged that individual tastes and ability be considered before signing up for any team or squad...
Printing a Wide World photograph of a herd of cattle grazing in the shadow of the North Dakota Capitol, the Forum explained: "Where those cows are presumably grazing is a graveled parking lot. The picture, fake, is a result of a photographic trick of superimposing a picture of a herd of cattle on a picture of the North Dakota State Capitol Building...