Word: defunction
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...Cornell Sun says "the Total Abstinence League at Harvard is practically defunct...
Columbia proposes to start a college magazine which shall be modelled to a considerable extent after the style of the defunct Harvard Register...
...United States Court at Syracuse, N. Y., yesterday, R. Porter Lee, president of the defunct First National Bank of Buffalo, who had been charged with embezzling the funds of the bank and violating the national banking laws, was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment in the Erie county penitentiary...
...this fall instead of just before commencement, as heretofore. This action has been the means of breaking up the two rival freshman societies, Kappa Sigma Epsilon and Delta Kappa. The former was established at Yale in 1840, and has had several chapters in other colleges, but all are now defunct. The Delta Kappa was established at Yale, like its rival, but five years later. Its southern chapters were broken up by the Rebellion, the Amherst chapter died in 1870, the Yale chapter was suppressed by the faculty in 1879, and now the Dartmouth chapter gives up the ghost...
...first rank was the Pierian Sodality, dressed in the uniform of a defunct military body. The strains wafted from their instruments filled the air with sweet melody, and did much to soften the fierce spirits of the wild beasts behind...