Word: bird
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Action for and against the Yardwelling owl continued yesterday, while a now attempt to capture the much-discussed bird failed to materialize...
Many attempts have already been made to capture the owl, so that it could be claimed as a partisan by a candidate. Roger Hunt and Lansing Lamont, both '52, tried to climb the bird's favorite pine tree, but could not get high enough. A demonstration for John Morey featured James Dietz dressed as the police-protected bird. A Goldstein circular asked and answered questions on the owl issue...
...quiet way, our visitor clutches his ribs in glee when he thinks of what the ASPCA said about the "balance of nature." The natural habitat of the bird owl is the Harvard Yard, and to take him away for a winter in the suburbs would upset a delicate scale. Then he puts his foot in his mouth and chokes with mirth when he things of those pigeons and squirrels...
During the day our bird sits still and digests the night's bill of fare. Every hour he opens his eyes to watch the students walking by between classes. He's not unusually conceited for an owl, but he can't help thinking that they're not so wise as he is. Why don't they get rid of a few of the duller professors, in keeping with God's Law of course, just to see what would happen...
...nature. Surely it doesn't apply only to owls, muses the wise one. People are the ones who make the rules, and they are like owls, only not so wise. If they believe that what is goes, perhaps they live that way themselves. A pleasant world for a bird of prey...