Word: remnants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bullets. Last fortnight came a letter from Explorer Carl E. Akeley, with the Eastman party and in charge of collections for the African Hall of the American Museum of Natural History, saying that the Kenya veld, once a hunter's paradise, is now stripped of fauna. "The unhappy remnant . . . now has its ear attuned to the rattle and bang of the motor car, which carries the alleged sportsmen over the veld in the hope of killing the last of a given species." At one water hole, Mr. Eastman photographed giraffes in the act of slaking their exaggerated throats...
...race seemingly unconnected with the surrounding Mongolian peoples, thought to have migrated to the northern islands of Japan from Manchuria, a remnant of Neolithic stock. They are taller than the Japanese, heavier-built; their hairiness has been exaggerated from the fact that the men never shave and the women, admiring hirsute embellishment, daub themselves with mustache designs in pot-smut. They are bear-worshipers, non-agricultural...
...With no ready means of meeting each other en masse as classmates in the old sense, there remains the fraternity system as the only remnant of the older social Yale that contributes to solidarity and common interest. And how are these institutions functioning in this respect? It is obvious that, with classes running to over 500 men, they cannot be functioning in the old sense at all. We are speaking now of the Junior class situation. When there were 275 men in the Junior class there were three fraternities of 36 men each, and a fourth with 20, that...
...Reisner was loathe to believe that the scarred remnant of a sarcophagus which was found and left in the main mortuary chamber of the Great Pyramid had ever contained the body of a king. He was loathe also to discredit all the theories of Herodotus and so he set his assistants to work on the edge of the rock platform. The hundred native laborers were made to clean off thousands of tons of sand and debris which were thrown into the valley beneath. Then the trained archaeologists were put to a minute clearing of the naked rock...
...being reminded of certain evils which still are found in Harvard education: evils which survive from that antiquated Harvard against which Sparks complained a century ago; evils which, though not Teutonic in genesis, have, nevertheless, a strong German flavor. For German A is the classic example of this fossil remnant of an unenlightened past...