Word: extinctionism
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For sixteen years after the extinction of the "Lyceum" there was no magazine to preserve the best literary work of the college. But in 1827 a new periodical called "The Harvard Register" was initiated into the world of literature. It was published once a month, its editors being members of...
From Mass., with its lines of cruel forms flanked on either side by an incongruous mass of broken chairs and desks, to Harvard and the funeral blackness therein contained, to Sever with its shiny but hard hearted benches, to our Laboratories with their curious devices for holding students, as it...
"The extinction of disinterested study is a necessary consequence of the encouragement to cram. When the best and most receptive years of a man's life have been passed in having the doctrine ground into him, that the end of all study is to cheat the examiner, and that knowledge...
The Finance Club suggests the following subjects to those intending to try for the Cobden Club medal: "What Safe Basis could be Found for a National Bank System in the Event of the Entire Extinction of the United States Debt?" "The Effect of a Customs Tariff on Wages," "The Effect...
In England, a well-timed riot or two and a judicious use of explosive are often necessary, some say, to call the attention of Parliament to any crying evil. Now we do not wish to make comparisons any more odious than necessary, but we cannot help feeling that there is...