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...have appealed to the ASPCA and allied groups for assistance, but so far our search has been utterly fruitless. May I ask through the medium of your columns that everyone be on the watch-out for our lost brother. He is generally corroded and has feathers. Our phone number is EL 4-8445. Howard Corni '57 President Harvard Lampoon

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FLOWN THE COOP | 5/8/1956 | See Source »

...relative merits of pigeons or owls, as resident yard fauna, or the ecological principles of the ASPCA, we offer no comment. The Harvard Ornithological Club

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: And More . . . | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...treetop over a week ago must be having a good sagacious laugh. No example of the species Scotiaptex Nebulosa, or for that matter no example of any predatory bird, has even had much real affection for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. But now, the ASPCA is patting this owl's sharp beak reassuringly and mumbling something about "God's Law." Any owl worthy of his feathers must appreciate the joke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scotiaptex Nebulosa | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scotiaptex Nebulosa | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...occurs to him that the squirrels didn't have much meat on them. Some of the Radcliffe freshman look much. . . No! There are some thoughts that even an own dare not think. But it's all so tempting, because anything he does is okay and part of the ASPCA's balance of 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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scotiaptex Nebulosa | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

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