Word: ostrich
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...soldiers parade along Dead Man's Hill as civilians parade on Fifth Avenue. The familiar cloudblue, sand-brown, and leaf-green uniforms will be passe as are hoop skirts now. We may suppose an army clad in giraffe spots combatting victoriously at Potsdam, and taking time to change to ostrich-white and black before entering the capitol in triumph...
...Somali negroes, of Northeast Africa, and from the Mombasa region of South British Africa. The collection consists of spears, clubs, shields, war-knives, clothing, musical instruments, dishes, gourd vessels, spoons, corn-mills and other household utensils, pipes, adzes, and necklaces made of iron, seeds, and from the shells of ostrich eggs. All of the objects are interesting as illustrating the customs of the tribes from which they came...
...Ethics for Young People." "Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln." Fichtis Science of Knowledge." "The Gospel of Paul." "The Harvard Divinity School." "Human Nature not Ruined but Incomplete" "Joint Heirs with Christ." "Leonard Woods." "The Natural History of Dogma." "The Ostrich." "Phillips Brooks." "The Poems of Emerson." "Poetry, Comedy and Duty." "The Psychology of the Vedenta and Sankhya Philosophies." "Recent Studies in Buddhism." "The Relation of Jesus to the Present Age." "The Relation of Modern Philosophy to Liberalism." The Science of Thought; a System of Logic." "The Sea." "The Theology of Uniterians." "The Ultimate Facts of Ethics...
Thirdly, will the CRIMSON explain why a gain made by Yale is necessarily due to "accident?" What accident? What, by comparison, is the immutable law upon which the growth of Harvard rests? Is not this the attitude of the traditional ostrich, which buries its head in the sand when it gets into difficulties...
...ostrich which was lately presented to the Biological Department was found to contain two cents, a brass button and a hair brush. The seniors wish to help in its dissection, in the hope of finding a stray watch or so. - Pennsylvanian...