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...Cape Cod, birders chalked up two Razor-Billed Auks, six Ring-Necked Ducks, one Barrow's Golden-Eye, a rare, deep-Arctic male King Eider, two Clapper Rails, a Yellow-Breasted Chat, and an unprecedented 25 Pine Grosbeaks. In Cocoa, Fla., Veteran Birder Allan Cruickshank, one of the nation's foremost experts, claimed a record 191 species for his group, including the Fulvous Tree-Duck and two Brewer's Blackbirds...
...Eider also reacted favorably to a proposal by Berelson to speed up the doctoral process. He said, "Grad students are not Methuselahs, and they are not immortal. They should not be allowed to take eight or nine years to earn their degrees...
...mentioned attracting male Eider Ducks to shore. "Only the females stay on the island," he said. "We could bring the males in by hiding in the grass and waving a white handkerchief...
...featureless plateau 750 miles across and two miles high. And here, protruding into space, is the heartland of the antarctic's terror, the vat where much of its wrath and weather is brewed. Over this plateau sweep winds from distant seas, and here snow crystals have fallen like eider down, layer on layer, millennium on millennium. The meridians of the earth converge upon this great snow desert, closing in to pinpoint that half mystical, half mythical objective of adventurers, scientists and explorers, the South Pole. At the Pole the temperature may drop as low as 120° below zero...
...Eider was supported by John Finley '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature. "It is a mistake," he said. "I don't see how anyone could study English profitably without some knowledge of Latin...