By special arrangement with the pigeons in the Yard, Professor Kittredge yesterday employed a member of that species to train the students in English 1 in correct enunciation.
While the members of the class in Sever 5 were engaged, yesterday morning in reading from Chaucer, a pigeon forced entrance to the room, and by dint of a terrifically clamorous cooing from the dark recesses of the ceiling, forced them to the extremities of distinct articulation in order to be understood.
This educational innovation, precedented perhaps only by Demosthenes famous self-imposed handicaps, Professor Kittredge declared to have been planned beforehand. The fact, however, that the animal has frequently attended uninvited Dr. Maynadler's classes in the English novel, which meet in the same room, indicated that this explanation may have been impromptu.
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