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Harvard provides a demanding enough environment for students who go there on purpose. But Loxosceles laeta, a poisonous South American spider that matriculated at Cambridge by accident, finds the university a friendly place indeed. Laetas have established a thriving colony in Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology and are multiplying rapidly...
...Herbert Levi, the museum's associate curator of arachnology, and one of the world's leading spidermen, discovered the first laeta lurking in a cabinet of dead myriapods (millepedes and centipedes) in September 1960. Levi promptly identified the male spider, but he paid no further attention, thinking the laeta was a lonely stowaway that had come to town in a shipment of South American zoological specimens. Not until last month did Harvard zoologists realize that laetas had made the museum their U.S. beach head. Delighted students discovered that the basement was alive with venomous spiders, many of them...
...second concert by the Boston Symphony Orchestra will be held in Sanders Theatre this evening at 8 o'clock. Miss Laeta Hartley will be the soloist. The program will be as follows: 1. Symphony No. 4, Ropartz 2. Concerto for Pianoforte, No. 2, MacDowell 3. Symphonic Sketches, Chadwick
...second concert by the Boston Symphony Orchestra will be held in Sanders Theatre tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. Miss Laeta Hartley will be the soloist. The program will be as follows: 1. Symphony No. 4, Ropartz 2. Concerto for Pianoforte, No. 2, MacDowell 3. Symphonic Sketches, Chadwick
...Ludere laeta...