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...sacred ibis to our avid avi-culturists, I have been looking for its reappearance on the Cambridge scene. Having perched so long atop the Lampoon Building without inibision, the ibis should again be visible ibjdem. Then all Cantabrigians can shout the prophotic words of the ancient Ovid, "Medio tutissimus ibis," that is, "The ibis is most safely back in our midst...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IBIS, QUO IBIS | 5/29/1953 | See Source »

...right in saying demand, command, castle, example, I won't undertake to decide; he certainly has much authority on his side. Perhaps, however, the safest way to shun the extremities represented by the Western haff and laff and the Yankee's parst and larst is to follow the medio tutissimus ibis rule of Ovid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROVINCIALISMS AT HARVARD. | 3/23/1877 | See Source »

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