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...dozen coypus, husky South American rodents (second cousin of the chinchilla) with stiff, reddish-brown fur, orange-colored teeth, and partially webbed hind toes, reached Manhattan from the Argentine last week. They were sent up the Hudson River on whose banks they were to be released to live on water plants, to breed, multiply and furnish a domestic supply of the fur which, when shrewdly treated, resembles badger and is called nutria...
...ancient slab of bone, shaped and curved like a cupped hand, gave Australian anatomists imaginative play last week. The bone was found recently near the Jervois Mountains in southern Australia. The bone is the top of a female's skull. The hind part of the relic indicates that, from the rear, she looked like an ape with head canted slightly forward. She had very powerful neck muscles. Her walk was slouchy, but nonetheless habitually upright. Thus her hands were free and more nimble than an ape's. She probably could braid twigs, early step in the art which...
Openly contemptuous, Sharkey had trained carelessly for the fight but he was careful in the ring. In the first round or two, he sparred cautiously down at little Walker, who strained up at him like a bulldog on its hind-legs at the end of a leash. Sharkey aimed long lefts at Walker's eyes, opened a cut over the left eye in the fifth round...
...assistant deans of Harvard College, it was announced yesterday at University Hall. Douglas Swain Byers '25, assistant dean in charge of Records is resigning to become assistant to the director of the Peabody Museum. Dean Byers's place in the Records office will be filled by Albert Edward Hind-marsh, assistant dean of Freshmen, and Wilbur Joseph Bender '27 will succeed Dean Hindmarsh...
...Professor of Icelandic Literature at the University of Iceland at Reykjavik, scholar and poet, will come to Harvard for the academic year 1931-32 as the fifth incumbent of the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry. He will succeed the Norton Professor for the current academic year, Arthur Mayger Hind, of the British Museum, formerly Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford...