Word: morteming
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...just back from New Haven where we have seen the dreams that we hoped for Harvard realised of a sister institution. We did not go to hold a post-mortem, but to see the new spirit which has been breathed into an already live undertaking. The papers have told us of the hopes that Professor George Pierce Baker '87, but recently of Harvard and now Director of Dramatic Art at Yale, had for the art of the stage and the fostering of the higher ideals of dramatic art in our academic environment. During Mr. Baker's leave of absence...
Despite this clatter, one cannot help but marvel at the post-mortem influence of the explorer. Family, nation, and the land of his adventure, not to mention the ghosts of terror and the voices of romance, awake to settle the disposition of his dust. The whole matter is trivial, but for those who are inclined to be dreamy and sentimental--which includes the whole world for moments at a time this fame and fortune of a braggard, which transcends our centuries, has a glory and scope fraught with opportunity for golden musing. Idle it is, but pleasant...
This matter of bringing a convention to a city is not to be taken lightly. If properly boosted, it means mounds of dollars in revenues, piles of superlatives in the post-mortem headlines and bread-and-butter letters, a conspicuous place in the sun for at least a few of the organizers for at least a few days and an enviable chapter in the Chamber of Commerce or Kiwanis or Rotary records...
...presented by the late Mr. P. T. Barnum to the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, died of what newspapers reported to be an inflammation of the bowels caused by eating peanuts. It occurred to Dr. Antoine Kolodny of the University of Illinois College of Medicine to make a post-mortem examination. The body of the elephant, which weighed some 3,000 pounds, had been transferred for destruction to a plant in Gary, Ind. Arming himself with a pair of rubber hip-boots and a ten-inch butcher knife, Dr. Kolodny, accompanied by two students, went to Gary. The carcass...
There is no rule against post-mortem award of the prize...