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Adrift in the sandy flats of the Wallaby Islands off the coast of Australia searching for strange reptiles, Dr. G. M. Allen '01, Associate Professor and Curator of Mammals at the University Museum, and William Schevill, graduate research worker, describe their experiences as members of the expedition to Australia of the Museum of Comparative Zoology in letters to the department. The expedition, which is under the direction of Professor W. M. Wheeler, left this country on July 25 last year. Excerpts follow, telling of a trip made by Dr. Allen and Schevill to a little-visited coral island...
...have had a suggestion offered some time ago that might be of value to Senator Fess in his search for funds with which to build his home (TIME, Sept...
...Centre Hawkins had been injured. While standing on the sidelines, teammates had jokingly asked him if he were scouting the team for Notre Dame. Assistant Coach Gordon Campbell heard the jokes, took them seriously, suspected Centre Hawkins of disloyalty. Centre Hawkins had had to allow his home to be searched for "papers," had allowed himself to be held in custody by two private detectives in a cottage at Topango Canyon while the search was made. Finding the suspicions unjustified, Coach Howard Jones apologized to Centre Hawkins in the presence of the Southern California football team. This apology did not satisfy...
...plot involves the loss of the winning ticket in a lottery; and the frantic search through most of Paris for this bit of paper leads to many pleasant ramifications. Especially funny is the burlesque of grand opera, showing that the opera stages of France are burdened with no less clumsy pachyderms masquerading as young lovers, than...
...disorder was initiated without doubt by a militant minority of the right, whose lead was followed by listeners in search of diversion, who with true Gallic wit took pleasure in causing discomfiture to over serious and self-important pacifists. Yet it is also a sign of the overbearing attitude which most nations adopt when they find themselves in a position of supremacy. Kipling wrote his "Recessional" to moderate this spirit. The Germans earned the epithet of "Huns" by crudely and needlessly antagonizing civilized society when they were in the ascendancy. The French would do well to see that they...