Word: coasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coast skulls he has studied are grouped as West Cameroons, Cameroons and Gaboon. The eastern Congo or Mountain skulls are grouped as Kiva and Eastern Mountain gorillas...
...what he might find and studied the curves of variation which resulted. On these he discovered that certain measurements showed sufficiently great differences between regions to warrant calling them different subspecies. Study of the curves forced him to divide the species into Gorilla gorilla gorilla (Savage & Wyman) or Coast, and Gorilla gorilla beringei (Matschie) or Mountain. It happens that the first of these races is the one found on the West Coast of Central Africa and the second race is found in the mountains of the Eastern Congo separated from the first by 750 miles of tropical jungle...
...conclusion is that "the gorilla, particularly the adult male, shows a large individual variation even within the limits of a small area; that there is no difference in kind between the Coast and the Mountain Gorillas such as to justify making of them two separate species, but that there is a distinct difference in degree sufficiently important to constitute a subspecific difference between the two groups...
...writer of the letter concerning the disposition of the Gold Coast dormitories which is printed in this morning's CRIMSON, has raised a question which has occupied the minds of many undergraduates. The general impression is that the ultimate fate of these dormitories has been definitely settled. This is not the case. A new experiment involving so many elements and with such wide ramifications as the Harvard House Plan cannot be definitely outlined at the very outset, and the eventual disposition of the Gold Coast dormitories remains as yet undetermined...
...Mandolin Club has planned to present Brahms' "Waltz in A Major"; "Frasquita", by Franz Lehar; and selections from Gilbert and Sullivan's "Pinafore". The pieces offered by the Banjo Club will be the "Veritas March", by Densmore, and a medley of the various college football songs. The Gold Coast Orchestra will play the "Russian Fantasy", arranged by Lange, and "Why Was I Born?" by Jerome Kern...