It is the last of the three tests of manhood which the women impose, to discover if a male is worthy of survival there.

This is done by encouraging the entire male student body to participate in either the intercollegiate or intramural sports program and by sponsoring the Carleton cheerleaders.

Now the thing for us to do is to find ourselves a couple of those wonderful flowering currants such as the red Ribes sanguineum of our Pacific Northwest, or otherwise a good sloe tree, or perhaps some nice pussy willow in bloom, preferably one with male or staminate catkins.

Each male willow catkin is composed of a large number of small flowers.

After the male and female andrenas have mated, the cycle is repeated.

The best way to determine the correct figure ( in captives ) is by direct observation of pairs isolated from birth, a method that produced surprising results: maturing of a male Indian python in less than two years, his mate in less than three ; ;

Alphonse R. Hoge's measurements of several very young specimens from Brazil suggest that at birth the female is slightly larger than the male.

Often it is thin and fragile and gives way readily to the male organ at the first attempt at intercourse.

He moved forward to within thirty-five feet of her, being careful, because he knew the female is less predictable than the male.

The male dancers sometimes wear kilts and their performance in them is spirited and stimulating.

`` Signal '' is choreographed for three male dancers to an electronic score by Alwin Nikolais.

Sergei Vikulov, as the lone male, meets the competition well with some brilliant hits, but the work is designed to belong to the ladies.

Clerfayt of `` Heaven Has No Favorites '' resembles Portago only in that he is male and a race-driver -- quite a bad race-driver, whereas Portago was a good one.

A female dragon named Delphyne ( δελφύς: womb ), who is obviously connected with Delphi and Apollo Delphinios, and a male serpent Typhon ( τύφειν: smoke ), the adversary of Zeus in the Titanomachy, who the narrators confused with Python.

In her earliest depictions she is accompanied by the " Mister of the animals ", a male god of hunting who had the bow as his attribute.

Kouros ( male youth ) is the modern term given to those representations of standing male youths which first appear in the archaic period in Greece.

In salamandrids, the male deposits a bundle of sperm, the spermatophore, and the female picks it up and inserts it into her cloaca where the sperm is stored until the eggs are laid.

Fertilisation is likely to be external as sirenids lack the cloacal glands used by male salamandrids to produce spermatophores and the females lack spermathecae for sperm storage.

In caecilians, fertilisation is internal, the male extruding an intromittent organ, the phallodeum, and inserting it into the female cloaca.

An exception is the granular poison frog ( Oophaga granulifera ) where the male and female place their cloacae in close proximity while facing in opposite directions and then release eggs and sperm simultaneously.

The " tail " is only possessed by the male and is an extension of the cloaca and used to inseminate the female.

The male Colostethus subpunctatus, a tiny frog, protects his egg cluster which is hidden under a stone or log.

This is because the male players are usually substantially stronger, and can therefore produce smashes that are more powerful.

However, such fights are usually discouraged by visual displays, in which the males bulge their necks, roll their eyes and hold their horns in a vertical position while slowly pacing back and forth in front of the other male.

Unlike the penis, the male variant of the clitoris, it usually does not contain the distal portion or opening of the urethra and is therefore not used for urination.

The two parents are commonly identified as Sky ( usually male ) and Earth ( usually female ) who in the primeval state were so tightly bound to each other that no offspring could emerge.

For instance, the democracy of ancient Athens did not allow women, foreigners, or slaves to vote, and the original United States Constitution left the topic of suffrage to the states ; usually only white male property owners were able to vote.

Imperial daughters and granddaughters, however, usually ascended the throne as a sort of a " stop gap " measure — if a suitable male was not available or some imperial branches were in rivalry so that a compromise was needed.

An emperor ( through Old French empereor from Latin imperator ) is a ( male ) monarch, usually the sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm.

* The Haystack: A male cast member and a woman ( usually one of the Hee Haw Honeys ) talk about love issues while sitting at the haystack ( the skits began with just the top of the haystack on camera and then panned down to reveal the couple ).

* " Gloom, Despair and Agony On Me ": Another popular sketch usually performed by four male cast members ( originally and usually Roy Clark ; Gordie Tapp ; Grandpa Jones and Archie Campbell ) sitting around in hillbilly garb surrounded by moonshine jugs and looking overtly miserable.

Sugg goes on to note that female characters who are paired with this character usually end up socially ostracised, or worse-in an inverted ending to the male hero-story.

Before mating, each male excavates a brood site, a saucer-shaped depression under a rock or log with its entrance positioned out of the direct current, usually pointing downstream.

He usually illustrated male and female variations, and sometimes juveniles.

The female usually lays two eggs, which are incubated by the male.

Spit testing with an intact male is generally free and is usually accurate.

He gave orders for the birth to be announced with all the solemnity usually accorded to the arrival of a male heir.

This season was usually from spring to autumn, as by early spring all the crops would be planted, thus freeing the male population for warfare until they were needed for harvest time in late-autumn.

The role of the male hero was usually entrusted to a castrato, and by the 18th century, when Italian opera was performed throughout Europe, leading castrati who possessed extraordinary vocal virtuosity, such as Senesino and Farinelli, became international stars.

Though his absence from the 1958 conclave did not make him ineligible – under Canon Law any Catholic male may be elected – the College of Cardinals usually chose the new Pope from among themselves.

Packman found that they are not as stable as their male counterparts: a senex will usually remain a senex for the duration of the play but designations like matrona, mulier, or uxor at times seem interchangeable.

Wild groups usually consist of three to ten individuals, with one reproductively active female, one or more reproductive males, and several nonreproductive helpers that can be either male or female.

Copulation, although usually used to describe the mating process of non-human animals, is defined as " the transfer of the sperm from male to female " or " the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman ".

Among modern English speakers, solar deities are popularly thought of as male counterparts of the lunar deity ( usually female ); however, sun goddesses are found on every continent ( e. g. Amaterasu in Japanese belief ) paired with male lunar deities.