Word: owl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When The Owl turned up outside University Hall last term, only a few of the Deans and officials within noticed his arrival. Most of them heard about it for the first time from the morning papers. Across the way in Weld Hall, however, there was no such administrative indifference. There, John U. Monro, immediately recognizing the bird's potentialities, mentioned it to a CRIMSON reporter within a few hours of its appearance...
...Owl prospered during its vacation vigil on its pine tree behind University Hall, with holiday banquest adding over a pound to its already well-filled frame, a check-up revealed yesterday...
Ludlow Griscom, research curator of zoology, shrugged off a current Yard rumor that the Owl had slaughtered himself an extra large Christmas dinner. "One day is just like another to an owl," Griscom said...
Griscom also blasted hopes that the Owl would find the Cambridge climate a little too rugged in the winter months. "Owls display typical Harvard indifference when it comes to cold weather," Griscom said, "They are very well insulated, and 20 degrees below zero won't drive them away when there's plenty...
Finally the owl came out into view--only to fly away to a less public roost. For the next half hour, Miss Holmes amused a crowd of freshmen and assorted passersby as she strove to get within range of the wily bird...