Word: defunct
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...action taken by the Student Council Monday night in removing two of its members for failure to attend meetings is unprecedented in the history of the Harvard Council. Whereas the now defunct constitution provided that a member could be ejected from the Council if he were grossly negligent in the performance of his duties, the new constitution makes attendance the test of competence, and specifies that a two-thirds vote of the Council may remove members who miss five meetings in a term...
Local speculation, however, liked the award with Professor Hunt's research as director of the University's now-defunct Underwater Sound Laboratory, for which he received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University in 1945. The eulogy with the degree said: "Originator and able chief of one of Harvard's large war laboratories; his ingenuity has served the Navy in its battles below the waves...
With a moral and financial boost from the Crimson, the Network got University recognition and set up studios in the now defunct Shepard Hall on Holyoke Street. Its executive board was, in the very beginning, a part of the Crimson masthead and largely peopled by Crimeds. It soon became obvious, however, that the Network was being run by Network men, and the two organizations began slipping apart in a complicated series of negotiations that came to an end only last week...
...with its new hand, Jersey Standard got a joker. The French have not taken kindly to Jersey Standard's view that the Red Line Agreement is defunct, are now suing-in London to try to keep it in force. As bait to the French to settle out of court, Jersey Standard and Socony have offered to sink upwards of $20,000,000 in Iraq's Kirkuk fields to quadruple production, help build two-and possibly three-more pipelines from Kirkuk to the Mediterranean...
Also in the books is the publication of a semi-yearly art magazine tentatively bearing the title, The Harvard Art Journal. With this entry in the field of University publications, the place occupied by the long defunct Hound and Horn magazine will be filled...