Word: remnant
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Debating at Harvard has fallen on evil days; of the inter-class and inter-club debates that flourished a few years ago there is no remnant left. Annually the debates with Princeton and Yale bring into momentary prominence a small group of men, but these occasions once past, debating sinks from public notice. Possibly its lack of popularity is a phase of the present trend away from things scholarly; more likely it arises in some defect of the system by which debating is carried on here...
...railroad and will ride five or six hundred miles through northern New Mexico and Arizona and southern Colorado and Utah. This part of the trip will occupy about a month. Among the most interesting places they will visit are the modern pueblo Zuni, the largest in the West, the remnant of the ancient "seven cities of Cibola," and Moki, where they will see the snake dance...