Word: defunction
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...problem was there long before the college board was thought of and will probably still be there long after the board is defunct. How can education be humanized? how can the Greek operative and the French subjunctive be made so translucent that they do not obscure the beauty of literature for the average person who studies them? Able educators realize the problem with a professional keenness probably beyond the reach of Mr. Abbott's amateur interest; if they solve it, the cons of the present college generation will have nothing but pity for the academic benefits which their fathers derived...
...most severe arraignment of college education which has ever come to the attention of this department is here reprinted from a plain, honest, fearless, and now defunct, little paper called "The Villager...
...Responsibility for the talk about nationalization lies with John Hays Hammond, who has been haunting the halls of White Court, pestering the President to breathe life into the recommendations of Hammond's defunct coal commission...
...Premier then turned to the subject of the debate: the foreign policy of his Government. He confined himself to the general European situation and, beyond saying that he was carefully watching Italian interests, did little more than classify the defunct League Protocol as "a machine which, in the interests of peace, was preparing to unleash...
...plans, that Current Opinion would cease functioning "very shortly," that its name would probably be incorporated with the Digest's, as was that of Public Opinion some years ago. Rumor put the price at $250,000. Thus, another name is to be added to the list of recently defunct or "absorbed" journals of opinion-The Freeman, The International Interpreter...