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...Pierre and daughter Lilita moved to Paris. Senora Rosalie was left alone in Havana with her 120 simians. Last week in her sumptuous Villa Palatino she died at the age of 65, cut off her unappreciative children without a single monkey, left the lot to be established by President Machado as an endowed and public Cuban monkeyhouse. "It was largely her pioneer work," said Director William Reid Blair of the New York Zoological Park (Bronx Zoo), "which influenced Professor Robert M. Yerkes, head of the Yale psychology department, to establish the Yale station for research on anthropoid apes at Orange...
...CRIMSON in its own examination of the subject has formulated a tentative plan. According to this proposal, the various houses would be tuthorized to establish days when the residents could entertain as outlined above. These days might be once a week, once a month, whenever the occasion seems to be suitable. The organization of the House Plan permits what the old dormitory system did not; all gates but one may be closed and unattended guests excluded; private baths eliminate the danger of meeting half dressed men coming from the showers; house responsibility with tutors sharing in the life...
...population of 22,835-whereas big Greenland with an area 84 times as great (46,740 sq. mi.) has a population of only 14,355. "In my opinion," said Prime Minister Stauning, "there is room in the Faroe Islands for private initiative and the investment of capital to establish repair stations equipped with large petroleum and benzine tanks to supply the Diesel-engined fishing vessels which are becoming very numerous." Of Greenland's trade the Prime Minister said cautiously: "It is well to wait and see how the country develops. The seal industry which was once very prosperous...
...date for the Authors desirable. It is rather the effect which such a date would have upon the character of the examinations. When the tests were introduced their purpose was to make sure a gentleman's acquaintance with the Classics. They were to check up on outside work, to establish the fact that a certain amount of self education was actually taking place...
...United States that they take home with them a favorable impression of both, while for students at Harvard these friendships represent as necessary a part of their education as the courses they study. And the discussions by these men of various nationalities will at least do as much to establish mutual understanding and accord as the peace pacts, and disarmament conferences of their respective governments...