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...casual observer might, indeed, come to this conclusion. A few years ago a female of the species, "homo studiens", would have been as rare and out of place in the Yard as a man in the lingerie department of Shepherd's. Today, she is still as much out of place here, but she is no longer rare. At the mere thought of rearing a family of daughters--even as a sort of distant foster-father--John Harvard would drop his book from his knees and lose his place forever. But what to do? It is unfortunate that students from Radcliffe...
...behavior of the editors of the Bronx Homo News...
...measure of success. By understanding his strengths, his weaknesses, his abilities and his stupidities he may be able to cure those desperate ills which humanity refastens upon itself in every generation. The literature of eynicism and criticism is an effort to map out the wonders of the much perplexed homo sapiens, to find some escape from the closed circuit of human degradation...
...added, with Mr. David Garnett, author of the just-published A Man in the Zoo.* By a strange coincidence Mr. Garnett hit upon the name John Cromartie also. And Mr. Cromartie had himself exhibited in a cage in the Royal Zoological Gardens, London, with this card on it: 'Homo Sapiens, MAN. This specimen, born in Scotland, was presented to the Society by John Cromartie, Esq. Visitors are requested not to irritate the man by personal remarks.' Oh, well, even Mr. Brisbane can't read everything. The press agent, if such he was, had succeeded in outwitting...
Central Europe, the home of homo...