Word: extinction
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...offset to the French fortress of Louisburg; the trade relations of the two towns have always been close; and at the time of the Revolution many of the prominent citizens of Boston--the Tories or Loyalists--emigrated to Halifax; and fine old Boston names--some of them extinct here--are to be found on the tablets of the interesting eighteenth-century Church of St. Paul. The generosity of the United States to their unlucky neighbor has been so notable that it ought to warm the hearts of all Canadians toward us. It is to be hoped that our students will...
...natural History Society, which for the past few years has been practically extinct, is to be reorganized and a meeting was held at the Harvard Club recently at which several graduates began an active campaign to re establish the society in the University. The following officers were chosen by the nominating committee: president, R. M. Field '09; vice-president, R. Peattie 2G; secretary, H. St. John...
...compare it with the Harvard of today. Once, all of its students were planning to engage in one of the three, so-called, learned professions--law, medicine or theology. Now, although the Law and Medical Schools are more active than ever before, the Theological School is nearly extinct; and, in the Academic Department, the rush is all toward science, technology and business, --toward the most practical studies, away from the classics, and away from culture,--in one word, the scholastic...
...American Unitarian Association will eventually receive large sums from her estate, which is estimated to be worth several hundred thousand dollars. In the original will there are no public bequests, but after leaving $40,000 to each of her children she provides that, if her issue becomes extinct within 20 years, Harvard College shall receive $100,000 for the establishment of a professorship in philosophy, to be known as the Philip H. Sears professorship. The will further provides that the residue of the estate shall be divided in halves, one of which shall be divided between Radcliffe College, the Museum...