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...road toward Mount Ida, two trucks overturned. Nine beasts scampered into Ouachita National Forest. A pursuing posse brought down one of two escaped leopards and recaptured a tame black bear and a rhesus monkey. The other leopard prowled all night before being tracked down by a small but heroic cur named Tony, whose owner, Roiston Fair, shot the leopard, but not before it had killed Tony. Still in the forest: a polar bear, a black bear, three monkeys...
Dean Bender's letter describes the Administrative Board's deliberations as striking "a proper balance between a realistic judgment of the probable results of the Council's proposal, if it were accepted, and our confidence in the decency and responsibility of most Harvard students and cur traditional policy of granting them as much freedom as possible to order their own lives." It seems that the confidence and traditional policy were outweighed by the consequences of a minor adjustment to a changed social situation. That changed situation has been recognized by the administrations of women's colleges, by other...
...with a quiet, sensitive portrayal of a woman who has a fairly rational enjoyment of life. But Lenormand is out to get her, too. Miss Ford is a fine actress, and it is not her fault that the sincerity of her performance forces her to whine like a whipped cur with a post-nasal drip for long stretches toward the end of the play...
Many of the wild-eyed agitators in the audience hissed the child, cheered the cur. Challenged to say how medical science could advance without experiments on animals, anti-vivisectionists had suggested using human beings-starting with waterfront bums, then prisoners in the jails, finally the inmates of insane asylums...
Test by Witch Doctor. The words of the Curé d'Ars had set young Suzanne training herself to be a missionary. She used family pull for permission to attend lectures at a medical school, where she hid behind a screen so that the other medical students would not know a female was present. She spent two years nursing soldiers in the filth of the Crimean War. Then, still in her early 20s, she met a French missionary bishop on his way back to New Zealand. Suzanne decided that the time had at last come to leave home...