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...Psychology Department maintains a zoo on the top floor of Boylston Hall for the purpose of research into the nature of hunger and reactions of animals to various conditions of light and situation. About 200 rats, 15 cats and kittens, a pair of squirrels, and about 40 salamanders are regularly kept and a pair of monkeys were added last year to the collection. There is also a moth-eaten stuffed tiger whose tail is at present in the process of decay that was, according to one of the professors, rescued from the rubbish heap of the University Museum...
Under the University Museum, the same Department keeps a smaller collection consisting of 30 garter snakes, a boa constrictor, a copperhead, a dozen turtles, 10 tree frogs, a pair of chamma which is a type of Oriental fish, a newt, a crayfish, and a few frogs...
...civilized" the animal may be. Monkeys range from four to seven dollars. Hens, ducks, etc. are all bought at regular market prices by the pound. Pigeons and turtles both range from a quarter to eighty-five cents and a Louisiana bullfrog costs a dollar. Oppossums are $4 a pair and copperheads are $3. Crayfish and snails both cost about a nickle each and salamanders are 25 cents each...
...strict regulation against inmates marrying. One day, on leave, John Ellich and Marie Kiefer eloped to Manhattan. For two years after that officials of the home watched the strangely happy couple with growing suspicion, at length called them up and wrung a confession of their marriage. One of the pair, the officials decided, must leave. That night thunder rolled over Tappan, drowning out the sound of two revolver shots. Next morning the superintendent peered over a transom at the lifeless bodies of Mr. & Mrs. John Ellich...
...commercial house actually producing the service. The ultimate effect would be to make the field unprofitable for student organizations, with consequent lessening of competition and a corresponding rise in prices. But in the meantime, indications are that there will be a stiff fight for every student shirt or pair of trousers to be laundered or pressed, with the possibility of harm to the capital investment of student entrepreneurs who have entered these fields in which competition is apparently uncontrollable...