Word: defunct
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...year ago the CRIMSON called attention to the fact that the territorial clubs were rapidly sinking into the realm of defunct organizations. Apparently very little progress has been made since that time towards resuscitating these extremely valuable institutions...
...Such compulsion would set a precedent for similar attempts to revive defunct organizations in the future...
...states are growing more rapidly it is only natural that their own colleges should reap the benefit. Obviously this, while it has explanatory value, cannot reconcile the College to the danger of becoming a local institution. The activities of the Harvard Clubs throughout the country and of the now defunct Territorial Clubs show that Harvard men are not content with explaining the phenomenon. It is the opinion of many that the examination system is largely responsible. This feeling has led to the establishment of the New Plan which, while good as far as it goes, has not changed the situation...
...Council is "not yet officially dead." If failing to perpetuate itself within its constitutional limits, and this it certainly failed to do, does not constitute its official demise, what can? The majority of even those in favor of the new plan recognize that the old Council is now defunct. Next, how can the defunct Council, or supposing for the moment that it still exists, how can its very nominating committee sit down and proceed entirely to revamp its constitution when provision for legally carrying out such amending is otherwise provided for in the constitution itself...
...second reason why the proposed scheme is ill-advised and not worthy of being put into effect is that the published list of nominations for Council members is absolutely unconstitutional, the list was made up by the nominating committee of the defunct Council. Can it be that the nominating committee, as it stated in yesterday's CRIMSON, "has nominated the following men according to the constitution of the proposed Council"? As it appears to an ordinary observer, to proceed constitutionally, it will be necessary, first, to ratify the new Council, then to have its ex-officio members appoint a nominating...