Word: owls
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...professors. The reading-room of the "Harvard Annex!" Your fancy, unbidden, suggests harmonious colors, inviting easy chairs, a few choice pictures; a happy blending of order and confusion in the details; a wooden mantel, framing a fire-place, and perhaps a bust of Minerva, or, at least, a stuffed owl presiding over it; book-cases filled with all that a student needs to have at hand, leaning in comfortable retirement against the walls; a study. with room enough for fifty people, and not too much...
...OWL...
...desire it. There is not that tendency toward study here which exists in the East and in the West. The young women who would have attended the lectures at Columbia, it is to be feared would have been led there by mixed motives. It would not have been the owl, the bird of Minerva, which would have led them on, but a lark. Certainly they are offered the privilege of a Harvard annex (without, however, the excellent offices of Miss Ticknor to arrange matters), but the masses have not jumped to avail themselves of it.-[N. Y. letter to Traveller...
...that women, like snakes, fancy themselves hidden from pursuit if their eyes are covered? Is the snake the origin of the female, - and the owl of the male? What we see of the intellects of the two sexes might give some foundation for such an opinion...
...know no more than any owl...