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Subject of many a session behind curtained windows: disconnected telephones. The dean in scored roundly by freshman and senior alike as an Iowa Yokel rudely out of his Iowa mud-puddle, as a discouraging specimen of what a little learning will do to cold-hoppers. They hope that thinking persons will not allow the Williams label to be pasted on the college...
...College Library has had on exhibition recently a small case full of books which have three things in common: all appeared during the closing weeks of last year; each of them makes some claim to interest as a specimen of fine printing; and in each case some of those responsible for the printing are closely associated with Harvard. As a group, they prove that Harvard is making a creditable contribution to contemporary typography...
Scientists 2,000 years hence who wonder about the evolution of dogs, will have but to go to Yale University's Peabody Museum and examine the bones of 200 canine generations which will then be on exhibition. Specimen dogs of the 79 recognized breeds will be mounted, put side by side with their skeletons for comparison. Leon Whitney, authority on genetics, is in charge of the collection and already has skulls of the black and tan, Newfoundland, Irish Wolfhound, and entire skeletons and skins of the Cocker Spaniel, French Bulldog, bloodhound. Latest arrival was Togo, a husky serum-courier...
...explain the erroneous notions as to variety of species which have grown up throughout the world, and explains too why science has waited for such an exhaustive study as this one by Mr. Coolidge to reduce the classification to one single species of two subspecies. The first specimen in any museum in the world was that in the Boston Society of Natural History and now in the Agassiz Museum. It was discovered by Savage, a missionary in the Gaboon, and sent in 1847 to Dr. Geoffries Wyman, then Professor in the Harvard Medical School...
...This specimen was the basis for the first scientific description of the genus gorilla on record. Dr. Wyman delivered a speech describing the gorilla to the Boston Society of Natural History. As time went on, and other specimens were discovered, they were sent back to museums on the continent of Europe and to England, as well as to the United States...