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Unhappily, the old order always changeth and in time even this last survivor must pass. Several centuries hence one will see lightly draped maidens "interpreting" a snake-dance with veils and pirouettes. And it will be advertised as "La Marche de Serpen." But at present "it lives, it moves, and has its being", and today all will have the privilege of knowing the snake-dance in its natural element...
United States. Vertebrate fossils and bones of great significance were the product of the Albert Thompson expedition of the American Museum of Natural History in the Snake Creek fossil quarries of western Nebraska: 1) A tooth of a native ape, the only one known in the New World. 2) Skull and jaws of a gigantic camel, much larger than the modern Bactrian. It is attributed to the Pliocene period (about 1,500,000 years ago). 3) Skull and bones of three-toed horses, fossils of a dwarf rhinoceros, a giant pig, and the moropus or clawed ungulate, all belonging...
...Museum. It was hauled 152 miles over mountains to a railroad. It will take five years to clean and mount. The original specimen of the species is in the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh. Diplodocus stood 16 feet high at the hips, weighed 18 tons in the flesh, had a tiny snake-like head and an elongated neck and tail composed of scores of vertebrae and tail-bones varying from three feet to one inch in length. It browsed on trees, bushes...
...Stadium this afternoon, when the whole student body will migrate to Cambridge in the wake of their football team. Five cheer leading will combine their forces in an effort to get a good response from the rooters. Between the halves the visitors will entertain the spectators with a snake dance as the University Band will be unable to perform...
...Speaking of the R. O. T. C. General Pershing is reported to have said--"It is considered by educators as a very definite means of maintaining discipline in the various colleges . . . Where these units exist." Western Reserve with its nine students in the hands of the police after a snake dance and Yale with its mass probation as the result of a Freshman dining hall riot, may be forced to adopt such a method; perhaps Harvard in its provincialism may be able to avoid accepting it for some years to come...