Word: extinction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the University is struggling with the various phases of the House Plan, and Yale is in process of debating a similar arrangement, it is interesting to regard the somewhat analogus question with which the third member of the extinct alliance is concerning itself. At Princeton the Utility and desirability of an undergraduate center is under discussion. The situation is in some respects similar to that of Harvard. The widening gap between clubmen and nonclubmen makes for the same sort of disintegrating influence as is here ascribed to unwieldy size and minute division into cliques...
...this fading power is not that Harvard will eventually lose its firm grasp on the American stage, but that what was once a fertile field of capable dramatists has suddenly become barren for want of cultivation. The tradition which established theatrical activity has fortunately not had time to become extinct as is definitely indicated by the recurring undergraduate efforts to cause some sort of dramatic revival. But the impetus necessary to materialize these feelings must come before the fire is smothered in the obliterating blanket of opposition and neglect...
Died. Sir Robert Balfour, 85, shipbuilder (Balfour, Williamson & Co); in London. Because his heir died in 1923 and his younger son was killed in the War, the baronetcy is now extinct...
...still a mystery. It is supposed to be North Siam, but no white man has seen it alive. The Eid's deer from Burma are also unusual. There are two sets of antlers of Pere David's deer with the remarkable long black tines; these deer are long since extinct in a wild state and only a few exist, in one English park...
...Frederick Wr. Enwright, was jailed in 1927 for having published a libelous cartoon of Mayor James Michael Curley, the Telegram was already dead. Publisher Enwright's present venture is a Telegram-News in Lynn, Mass. Last fortnight, this sheet gave an exhibition of a brand of journalism almost extinct...