Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many and various have been the theories as to the causes for these deaths. On them have been prepared general indictments of our whole psychology, philosophy, and social system. Clergymen lay the blame on materialism, lack of religious training, breakdown of family life. Others lay it to incomplete education, as evidence of the dangers of half-knowledge. Freudians smugly smile, and talk of repressions. There is a general "I told you so" air about them all. Whatever way it is regarded, though, the situation seems to cast reflection upon college education...
...Hillis suffered a nervous breakdown, which forced him to end his 25-year pastorate. Since then he has been pastor emeritus...
...love my job as a schoolmaster, but I am not going to take responsibility for the development of those things in youth which are left undeveloped by the breakdown of other institutions. ... It is easy for teachers to worry too much about the moral status of their pupils. Remember, the clay leaves your hands at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. On its way home many fingers get into that clay. Then at home the parents get their hands into it. Next morning you may not recognize...
Died. Richard Cary ("Uncle Richard'') Morse, 85, famed pioneer Y. M. C. A. official; at his Brooklyn home; of general breakdown, following a severe cold. Nephew of Painter-Inventor Samuel F. B. Morse he attended Yale, rowed on the 'Varsity crew, graduated in 1862. Student for the ministry, he was persuaded to become religious editor (1867-69) of the New York Observer; wrote for it a report of a meeting of the Y. M. C. A (then a struggling fledgling) which won him an official position with the organization; became eventually (until 1915) general secretary...
Died. Louise Vanderbilt Schieffelin Hewitt, 25, wife of Abram S. ("Chappie") Hewitt, greatgrand-daughter (maternal) of "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt; great-great-granddaughter (paternal) of John Jay; in Manhattan, by a fall or leap from her apartment window, following nervous breakdown...