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Another outstanding first contributor to the new college was the famed circus owner, P.T. Barnum. In 1882 Barnum gave Tufts a museum and from time to time provided it with animal skins to be stuffed for exhibit. Then in 1885 Barnum's most colossal specimen and the world's largest elephant in captivity, Jumbo, was tragically killed by a railroad train. As usual, Barnum promised the elephant's hide to Tufts. But first he took it on a tour of Europe, where twice as many people paid to see Jumbo stuffed (as compared to his earnings when he was alive...
...Negro Students has conducted a Southern project for the past two years. The objective was to encourage more of the best Negro students from Southern high schools to apply for admission to good interracial colleges in the North. During the two years 78 Negro high schools in the 45 largest southern cities were visited. 3,178 students, all in the top ten percent of their senior classes, then took a modified college entrance examination. Of these, 1,732 passed. And 578 applied for admission to an interracial college, with 523 being accepted...
...Largest single expenditure was an estimated $600 connected with a 13-1 vote to continue membership in the National Student Association. An amendment designed to increase the representative character of NSA was unanimously attached...
...would receive $320 per share, or almost twice the current market price, plus whatever indemnity the company could get from Nasser. If, as is far more likely, the company should decide to expand its portfolio and stay in business, it could turn itself into one of Europe's largest investment trusts...
...resembles nothing so much as a length of large intestine on the loose. There is a lot of helling around the coral reefs on submarine scooters that look like sawed-off torpedoes. And there is a hilarious conversation among whales, in which the moviegoer learns an awful truth. The largest of all mammals has a voice almost exactly like a mouse's. Whales squeak...