Word: plesiosaur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Museum of Comparative Zoology has just finished mounting the skeleton of a new Plesiosaur from the Cretaceous deposits of Kansas which, within a few days, will be placed on exhibition. The mounting of this specimen completes the group of these large marine reptiles which occupy the entire west wall of the Mesozoic room. The other specimens all come from England and Germany...
...there were one point on which I should quibble, it would be the club system, but I regard it as too unimportant to matter. The Harvard club system is a strange creature. Evolution put the dinornis and the plesiosaur down and piled mountains above them. This other freak with gold feet may yet join them in innocuous extinction. But whether or not, the great mass of Harvard men will come and go and scarcely heed. Harvard's democracy is untrammeled, but it flourished anywhere at Harvard but in a clubroom...
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