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Lowell parietal rules have been waived for a Jolly Up from seven to ten p.m. on Sunday, March 18. Invitations were sent to approximately fifth Radcliffe girls by the "Lowell House Drinking and Gaming Society" in conjunction with the Hamster Breeders' Association of Upper E Entry...
Activities planned for the evening include drinking and "hamster watching," spokesmen said last night. In response to queries by several Radcliffe mothers, the hosts announced that the party will be fully chaperoned by John P. Elder, assistant professor of Greek and Latin, and Dean Small. The number of gentlemen who will attend is "the secret of the Jolly Up Committee...
Hospitality. In Chicago, the Frank Catalanos lost their apartment when they admitted keeping two dogs, three cats, a tank full of goldfish, a tank of minnows, a two-foot alligator, two pigeons, three parrots, six canaries, three parakeets, five cockateels, a hamster...
Laboratoiy workers consider the hamster's laboratory qualifications practically ideal: it is even more susceptible to human diseases than the guinea pig. The gestation period is the shortest known for a mammal-15 days, 21 hours. It begins to mate by its 43rd day, bears its first litter at the age of two months. Thereafter, until the age of one year, when it stops bearing, it can deliver a litter of two to 15 young every month...
...hamster is slightly smaller than a guinea pig and looks like a toy bear. It eats practically anything: carrots, cabbage, lettuce, peanuts, dog chow, calf meal. It drinks no water, getting all the liquid it needs from leafy vegetables. At mealtimes, it stows all its food in huge pouches in its cheeks; later it empties the pouches and chews at leisure. Its only defects as a laboratory animal: it likes to fight other hamsters, and a hamster, if disturbed during a delivery, may eat her young...