Word: allard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calls of summer birds in the dead of winter. Moreover, like humans, they occasionally go crazy over a popular bird tune number, most of the birds in a murmuration repeating it over & over until at last they get tired of it and discard it. Botanist Harry Ardell Allard of the U. S. Department of Agriculture has devotedly studied the mimicry of starlings, coaxing them to perform by placing nesting boxes outside his window. In Science last week he reported a prodigy. One starling, having imitated the long, low, monotonous call of a flicker, remembered the flicker's tattoo...
...Allard Also Says Farewell...
...curtain fell yesterday on another Harvard teaching career when Louis Allard, professor of French, gave his last lecture in French 7, "Romanticism and Realism in French Literature of the Nineteenth Century." For years Professor Allard has been one of the lecturers in French 6, popular French literature survey course. Yesterday he delivered in French his last remarks as an active teacher...
Professor Allard is generally regarded as one of the leading authorities on French literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A Faculty member here since 1906, he is perhaps best known outside the University for his work on "La Comedie de Moeurs on France an 19eme Siecle...
Both Robinson and Allard will become professors cmeriti, when their resignations become effective next September...