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...Australia and New Zealand. The pictures are absolutely real and are the most daring ever taken, for Mr. Eustace, before realizing the possibilities of photography, spent over twenty years as a big game hunter. Some of the animals shown are exceedingly rare and include the white rhinoceros, heretofore considered extinct...
...fashioned girl", with all that she stands for in sweetness, modesty, and innocence, in danger of becoming extinct? Or was she really no better nor worse than the "up-to-date" girl -- who, in turn, will become "the old-fashioned" girl to a later generation. . . . The Hobart College Herald sums up the arguments of many of the attacks in this thoughtful fashion; "The outstanding objection to the modern dance is that it is immodest and lacking in grace. It is not based on a natural and harmless instinct for rhythm, but on a craving for abnormal excitement". The Dartmouth Jack...
...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...