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...morning last February, the Yale Daily News had frightening news for its readers. "A REAL LIVE AVOWED COMMUNIST spoke at Yale yesterday," it said in ominous capitals. Its front page showed a picture of the rara avis, actually the secretary of the New York State Communist party, docilly sipping coffee before addressing the Yale Political Union on the subject of the Smith...
...unpreceptive observer who has not seen a horsetail hair around the Square somewhere. The very urchins discuss it as they shine one's shoes. Popular too is the poodle haircut, though in recent times it has been joined by the Old English Sheepdog, the Skye, and (Oh rara avis!) the Russian elkhound hairstyles...
...this proves one thing. The Lampoon has its Ibis, but the Yale Record has its own rara avis: a Sense of Humor...
...dentists, grows sarcastic on the subject of single-track specialists. Elected president for 1936 last week was Dr. Leroy Matthew Simpson Miner, dean of Harvard's Dental School, president of the New England Dental Society. Bespectacled Dr. Miner, who looks almost as studious as he is, is that rara avis, a doctor both of Dentistry (Harvard) and of Medicine (Boston University). Incoming president, elected last year, is Dr. George B. Winter, author of a book on wisdom teeth, famed authority on extracting. He has a research laboratory on the farm near St. Louis where he raises sheep, turkeys, dogs...
...course, even that will not keep their circulation going indefinitely. They may have to turn their hunting also after that rara avis, the collegian who is neither Communist nor Fascist, and their hunt so directed may possibly meet with a greater aboundance of foxes, although it is difficult to foresee just how they will malign that particular hapless species. --Daily Princetonian...