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Cabot Hall has carried the Harvard-Radcliffe experiment in coeducational living one step further. Ernie, the Cabot Hall chimpanzee, is currently sharing a room on Cabot's second floor with Margot Hastings '72.
The chimp-property of Christiansen and Wilhelmina Dowell, house residents in Cabot-is staying with Miss Hastings until Sunday, when his owners return from California. The Dowells originally gave Ernie to a Harvard student, an expert on primate behavior, who returned the chimp to Cabot after he destroyed furniture.
Needs Nursemaid
"We realize he needs a nursemaid and not a chimp specialist," said Miss Hastings. "Every single aspect of my maternal instinct has come out since he's been here," she added. "I'm just not in a hurry to be a mother,"
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