Word: extinction
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Cornell has purchased of P. T. Barnum the skeleton of the dead elephant whose head was presented to the college directly after the fire. It is proposed to make a comparative study of this skeleton with the bones of an extinct mastodon which were recently found in Western New York State...
...prestige of the Shakespere Club won by good work and conscientious endeavor in the past cannot but occasion regret at its present supineness. There are many reasons why the Shakspere Club should not be allowed to become extinct, as it threatens to become if immediate steps are not taken to revive it, and restore it to its old position of usefulness and popularity. Last year, owing to the indifference of the of the instructor in elocution, the interest taken in the club was allowed to die out owing to the rarity of the meetings and the club itself became practically...
...methods, however, were somewhat different from those of the present club. It sought to promote the cause of classical learning by supporting occasional public lectures, and seems to have paid less attention to individual work on the part of the members. After an existence of several years, it became extinct...
Many customs that formed prominent features in the old-time student life of Harvard have gradually been dropped and forgotten, and not a few of them merited the disuse into which they have fallen. One custom, however, which seems in a fair way to become extinct is worthy a better fate. It is extremely strange that our undergraduates should have abandoned so enjoyable a custom as that of singing in the yard. Old graduates express the utmost surprise when told that student singing is very seldom heard in the yard, and recall with pleasure their own college days, when...
...which is meant one who never cuts chapel, lectures, or recitations, who has never received a summons, and to whom there is no unholy pleasure in "painting the town red," or "paralyzing the faculty." We were told to regard him carefully for the species is nearly extinct, and will soon...