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...months insurrection-rent Cuba has been trying to decide what to do with its legacy of monkeys and apes, left it by famed "Monkey-Mistress" Rosalie Abreu (TIME, Nov. 17). She it was who, rich and eccentric, abandoned European society to found a simian kingdom-the Villa Palatino-on the outskirts of Havana. There, with 120 monkeys, she dwelt in seclusion, except for occasional jaunts to Europe, when she would engage an entire deck of a transatlantic liner for herself & I monkeys. Learned contributor to the science of anthropology, in 1929 she offered 300 acres of her estate to Director...
...London Sketch, in a page of other animal pictures, published the photograph of a simian eating a grape, with the following captions: "Catching the grape fallen from the forehead: a chimpanzee does his teatime trick'...Need it be added that the 'chimp' is our old friend...
...commemoration of William Jennings Bryan and the principles for which he fought, Bryan University is growing in Dayton, Tennessee, the town which recognizes no simian heritage. It is assumed that a University so dedicated will guide its curriculum according to strict fundamentalist standards. The idea, if carried out, contains many possibilities, not only for Dayton's youth, but for all other colleges as well. In this day of scientific specialization and general stiffening of course requirements, the undergraduate is kept entirely too busy. If a firm belief in the principles of fundamentalism were to spread in University circles, college courses...
...catastrophe, and the second is far stronger. The Victorians are satirized with a savagery that defeats itself, for the reader begins to protest that it must be overdone. The tone of these chapters is like one of George's own remarks, thus reported: " 'Now, look at these simian bipeds,' George pursued, pointing to an inoffensive pair of lovers . . . 'more foul, more deadly, more incestuously blood-lustful . . .!' " Throughout the early chapters Author Aldington seems to be pointing at inoffensive people and gratuitously calling them incestuous. There may be reason for dissecting a diseased corpse; there can be none for clubbing...
...country and for Yale. No simple task has that been, especially since apes do not behave normally in captivity. To study them as best he could he once spent three weeks at Havana where a Se?ora Rosalie and a Se?ora Abreu have colonies of simians. Professor Yerkes' Almost Human (TIME, Dec. 14, 1925) reported his observations on ape intelligence. Chimpanzee Intelligence and Its Vocal Expressions is a related study. Last week he was in Africa collecting specimens for a purpose which Yale's President James Rowland Angell reluctantly (for fear of meddlesome publicity) told the psychologists. That purpose...