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Hazing in school and college has lately been reported extinct, or at least obsolescent. But "Tom Brown's School Days" seemed recently to have been resurrected, when the news came of a suicide in an English school as a result of too much bullying. An over-sensitive boy, "ragged" by his schoolmates to the point of desperation, flew into a rage and stabbed himself...
...this country, especially the larger colleges, hazing and bullying seem to be extinct traditions, though a feature of them is preserved in certain forms of initiation. It is true that the recent case, at a western college, of a student who was ridden on a rail, tarred and feathered because he cheered for the opposites team, shows that individuality is not yet regarded wholly as a virtue. But the better fashion, now for those who fail to conform, is to let them completely alone. The old English practice of sending a man to Coventry worked better than hazing: the latter...
...comforting to think that there may still be something in the animal world unknown to man. The more credulous scientists are willing to admit that perhaps a few members of an "extinct" species are still "carrying on". Perhaps the Great Auk's ghost may yet return and hatch its phantom...
...second in the Presidential sweepstakes, leaving the former ribbon holder, the Elephant to finish a bad third. Shortly afterwards the Moose left the Grand Circuit for his more familiar woods, and little has been heard from him since. Some commentators have had him dead and others considered his species extinct; but now comes a persistent rumor that he is to return, groomed and fit, the "dark horse" of the next Presidential Derby in 1924. Who will ride him is not announced and the logical man for the job, Senator Borah of Idaho has done his best publicly to disclaim...
...possible exception of this Northern Straits tribe, Eskimos do not live in the interior of Labrador, the purported home of the wild Fish Fang tribe; but stick close along the shore. In the fourth place the glorious name of Fish Fang may belong to some far northern or extinct tribe, but its application today to Labrador Eskimos is altogether doubtful...