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...While his habitat turned out to be the Converse Laboratory, he is quite human and promises to make as good a President as Harvard has ever had. Evidently, this in the last expedition which has been planned for the next decade or so; if one excepts an occasional safari to keep in trim, such as an honorary degree to another Al Smith...
...other animals in a lavish variety of combats. Pythons grapple with a leopard, a water buffalo, a man. A crocodile fights a tiger, a binturong a lizard, a bear a hyena. A stampede of elephants helps out Devil Tiger's slim plot by trampling the leader of a safari. An amorous fellow, he has been gazing upon the pretty girl of the party, bathing naked. So numerous are the animals and so loud their snarls, grunts and roars that when the fearsome Devil Tiger finally appears his death seems a mild anticlimax...
...killed the elephant. Mr. Davison, the American Museum of Natural History's new president, had cabled from Africa, where he and his wife are hunting specimens for the museum's new Akeley African Hall, under the guidance of the Africa-wise Martin Elmer Johnsons: "Have organized safari and got small bull elephant; all well." In the Davison marksmanship there was no clue to identify the killer-both are excellent shots-nor in their respective degrees of bloodthirstiness. Before President Davison sailed, commissioned by his curators to include four elephants (small enough not to usurp too much space...
...around the halls. A piano specialty was perfectly executed, but more familiar selections might be suggested as more likely to entertain. A scene "Design for Living," haunted by the spirit of Noel Coward, was good enough to be enlarged upon. A. D. Cadman '35 contributed a brilliant bit as safari...
...good form to have stained teeth. The Indo-China wing of the Kelly-Roosevelt Field Museum Expedition, headed by Harold Coolidge left remote Lao Kay early in 1929. With its impressive impedimenta packed on some ninety sturdy little ponies, tended by their mafous or native drivers, the safari toiled over the ridge of Tonkin and Laos. After several weeks of overland travel, the four American scientists embarked on frail native canoes and floated down the waters of the Nam Hu and later the mighty Mekong...