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...beaten by 7,000,000 majority; that throughout the country business men are rejoicing in promise of a great year ahead following our overwhelming rebuff and rebuke. ... If we do not see it and know it, we have less understanding and perception than the ostrich, the strategy of which bird is not considered to be sagacious...
...another place, an antelope grazed, a zebra pranced. These quadrupeds were hardly disturbed by the diverse noises put up in various directions by the bustard, the secretary-bird, the ostrich, the stork. In the distance, the crashing and the rumbling of a passing elephant could faintly be heard. At the edge of a lake, a giant buffalo bellowed loudly for its mate; a frightened puff adder shot through the grass with incredible speed...
...timbers, cover the wainscoting, and shut off the inquiring gaze of the gentlemen whose portraits have stared indifferently over the heads of several generations. For tonight, at least, decaying grandeur will be enlivened by a farewell feast. Rumor has it that Mem has splurged on turkey, the royal American bird, and invites all her remembering sons to dine with...
...Allen '01 of the University faculty will deliver a series of lectures on birds at the Boston Society of Natural History under the auspices of the Northeastern Bird Banding Association. Last year Dr. Allen gave several lectures on "The Elements of Ornithology...
January 27--"Some Parasitic Bird Habits...