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Adams graduated from Harvard in 1858, and returned to the Yard as a professor in 1870. Though he did not know it, and would probably have been scandalized to hear it, he was teaching in what has since come to be regarded as the beginning of Harvard's golden age. Last week, present-day readers could catch a little of the shine of that era through a new book by onetime Harvard Lecturer Rollo Walter Brown (Harvard Yard in the Golden...
...Missiles were thrown through windows at Newnham College [for women] ... at buses and at street lamps. In Senate-House yard, a heavy explosive charge was detonated, and some 70 panes of old crown glass were smashed...
Ornithological eyebrows are raised over the conspicuous taxonomic inaccuracy in last Monday's CRIMSON editorial. The owl now ravaging the fat and complacent pigeons of the Yard is a barred owl, whose proper Latin name is Strix varia, or if one wishes to be sub-specific, Strix varia varia. Scotiaptex nobulosa is the handle of the great grey owl, a much larger and rarer creature in these parts and a bird which would hardly be likely to be lured into the big city even by the prospect of a Harvard-educated prey. We realize that this nomenclatural lapse...
...relative merits of pigeons or owls, as resident yard fauna, or the ecological principles of the ASPCA, we offer no comment. The Harvard Ornithological Club
...events and times scheduled for the traingular track meet are the pole vault and high jump from 1:30 to 2 p.m.; the shot put and broad jump from 2 to 3 p.m.; and from 3 to 4:15 p.m. the 3/4-mile run, the 600-yard run, 40-yard high hurdles, 40-yard dash, 1000-yard run, and the 1 1/2-mile...