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From South Africa to New Mexico the University owns property in many obscure spots or else has "permanent" research centers located in distant communities. The term "Harvard" has a local meaning to natives of Stratford-on-Avon, the Island of Yap in the Pacific, and the Pyramid region of Egypt...
...recent years Yap, a small island southwest of Guam, has entered the Harvard sphere. Members of the Social Relations and Anthropology Departments are now completing a report based on their two-year study of the island...
...fact, Barney's boys only made one mistake. In the top half of the fourth Barlick was forced to stroll over to the Dodger dugout to ask Gene Hermanski if he would kindly shut his yap. Mr. Hermanski attributed his blasphemous outburst to a fit of boyish enthusiasm and respectfully complied...
...University's only other similar expedition is being conducted on Yap Island in the Pacific to aid the Navy in ruling the natives...
With scientists spread over the South Pacific, the Harvard group will concentrate on Yap, generally reckoned to be the toughest assignment of the survey. A sharp decline in population and the odd customs of a people about whom little is known will be particular objects of the investigation...