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Sargent, who as a biologist spent considerable time working with monkeys, claims his chief aim is returning the University to the "healthy simian curiosity" which he claims was prevelant during his own College days. He feels the only path open to Harvard is to throw out the officials who have been "prostituted by outside pressures," and to ensure the undergraduate a "true view of the future...
...Simian Sainta. In Denver, Mrs. Billie Shannon and her nine-year-old monkey, Skippit, entertained 23 less fortunate monkeys from the city zoo. Skippit was dressed like Santa Claus and passed out tiny wheelbarrows and toy washboards to his colleagues. In Kansas, whose citizens may legally consume nothing stronger than 3.2 beer, police poured $25,000 worth of whiskey down a drain. But elsewhere liquor sales-particularly of bonded Bourbon-boomed. An Indianapolis liquor dealer contrived a new kind of window display -a Nativity scene set up in a Haig & Haig carton...
...Simian Yardlings and any of their colleagues living above the ground floor are expected to swing around on ropes in the Indoor Athletic Building sometime this week to perfect their abilities in using the Yard's unique fire-escape equipment...
...unabashedly simian Self-Portrait by Tennessee's Representative James Percy Priest. It was, explained Priest, "a joke...
...little to say for modern man, whose back he compared to a saxophone. Slouching, said he, causes autointoxication of the digestive organs, displacement of the stomach from its normal position, a trap to collect poisons. And modern man is an inveterate sloucher -according to Dr. McAuliffe, "still a rather simian affair...