The Harvard Owl

This enigmatic tree-dweller (Whose sex could not be discerned by the more sage experts on Owlology) last year chose the Yard as his own domain. He (or she) sadly diminished the ranks of local pigeonry, thus causing furious partisanship among Yardlings. The advocates of campus cleanliness were decidedly pro-Owl, while the pig-con-squirrel lovers began to sport bows and arrows. The SPCA decreed that harming the Owl would upset the entire local balance of nature; budding politicos tried to capture it for Smoker campaigns; LIFE took its picture; but the Harvard Owl finally vanished as mysteriously as it had come.