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OVIS POLI WILL ACCOMPANY ROOSEVELT TO '12 REUNION

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"Am coming with Ovis Poli" was the baffling telegram received by the secretary of the class of 1912, in charge of the reunion of his class here on classday, next Wednesday, Further investigation revealed that the telegram was signed by Kermit Roosevelt '12, recently returned from a scientific expedition to Asia, and that his message referred to a rare sheep found in the uplands of the East, and which the son of the former President is presenting to the University.

Kermit Roosevelt and his brother Theodore Jr., returned recently from an expedition to the mountain fast-nesses of Asia, undertaken in the interests of the Field Museum of Chicago. The rare Ovis Poli was one of the baits that lured the expedition eastward, and the specimen that is to be presented to Harvard is the first one to make its appearance in New England.

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