Word: owl
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Owl Club, the Fly Club and the Porcellian Club all served alcohol this weekend to candidates for membership at off-campus locations...
Presidents of the Fly Club and the Owl Club did not return telephone calls made by The Crimson yesterday afternoon. A man who answered the phone at the Porcellian Club declined comment, and there was no answer at Sears' home...
According to one sophomore who went on the Owl Club's outing Saturday, only orange and cranberry juice were served at the club-house. But the sophomore, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that alcoholic beverages were later served at a "country home" outside Cambridge, and that he arrived back at Harvard and went to dinner in a house dining hall "totally trashed...
...addition, the corner where the sukkah stands, tucked between the Owl and Spee Clubs and en route to Lowell and Winthrop, is frequently passed by students until late at night. Either the vandals were extremely careful to make no noise and attract no attention, or the crime took place after people had gone to bed, perhaps at 2:00 or 3:00 a.m., or even later. That people would go to such trouble on a cold weekend night to disturb and endanger Jews is extremely upsetting. It also implies a motive stronger than an ignorant impulse for destruction...
Similarly the spotted owl. I am no enemy of the owl. If it could be preserved at no or little cost, I would agree: the variety of nature is a good, a high aesthetic good. But it is no more than that. And sometimes aesthetic goods have to be sacrificed to the more fundamental ones. If the cost of preserving the spotted owl is the loss of livelihood for 30,000 logging families, I choose family over owl...