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...however, thought the mass meeting sufficient. The next day there was a parade to the field such as Boylston Street never saw; and the seething snake dance that returned after that last practice made the anxious shopkeepers look out of their doors and wonder if the Yale game had been advanced...
There is much to stir the imagination in the picture of an angry, writhing, poisonous snake pinned firmly to the operating table in the reptile house at the Zoo, and encouraged by a scientist to strike at a bit of parchment covering a glass retainer. Instead of destroying, the snake is thus enlisted in the work of saving human life...
...From the snake house his poison is shipped to the Harvard laboratory, and thence to Brazil, where the Brazilian government runs a large serum plant. Long years of study have developed a method of procuring serum by injecting minute quantities of the poison of a given species into a horse. Gradually, the dos s are increased, until its blood begins to manufacture an antidote to this special poison and eventually becomes immune to it. From the blood of the horse the antidote is extracted, and this in turn is preserved and sent to hospitals so that it may be used...
This afternoon from 1 to 6 o'clock and all day tomorrow, the Crimson will conduct a hat exchange in its building at 14 Plympton street for the men who lost their hats during the snake dance. In order to avoid confusion, it is asked that every man who uses this exchange read carefully the following instructions...
...great play, which no team in a depressed frame of mind could have carried through. Harvard's field goal advantage has failed to break down Nassau's spirit or stop her hard fighting to the end of things. It was this great finishing spirit which brought about the Tiger snake dance up and down the field, the first one with a silent Harvard gathering looking on for a decade...