Word: decays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Department, announcing a list of belated citations for gallantry in the Spanish American War, named Lieut. John J. Pershing (now General retired) to be honored with a silver star. The frigate Constitution, several times near destruction, saved once by Oliver Wendell Holmes' Old Ironsides, is suffering from the decay of age. Rear Admiral de Steiguer made it known that Secretary of the Navy Wilbur meditates calling on the children of the Nation for pennies to save her again...
...contemporary universities, (having Harvard particularly in mind), were on the decline. My reason for believing that this was the case was that the ever increasing interest in Economics was gradually replacing the study of Art and the Classics in our Universities. I believed this to be a symptom of decay because Economics is in general studied with the selfish and mercenary object in mind of being able to make money more efficiently, while Art and the Classics are generally studied because of a disinterested love for knowledge. When avarice and selfishness begin to be dominant in any institution: state, church...
What does this mean but that money and money makers are controlling Harvard's policy, that the university is being run by merchants for the benefit of those who aspire to become merchants? These are events in the history of our institution which are as certain to bring about decay as they were the causes in the decay of the Roman Republic...
...modern scientific methods without neglecting the humanities, and of inculcating a liberality of mind that stops short of destructive radicalism. Conceivably, the graduate, in the intervals of carnival rejoicing, might accuse his Alma Mater of sacrificing teachers of might to a balanced budget, of accumulating laboratories while the classics decay, of grinding the face of liberalism beneath the heel of the business man's conservatism. Such things have been. But to upbraid it for including a man of any religion or of none in the administrative board of the corporation - one rubs one's eyes! A "Fellow" is chosen because...
...easy enough to explain the Conservative majority in the English Parliament in terms of Russian treaties, economic policies, and uncontested seats, but the decay of liberalism is something which cannot be explained away. In the previous general election, in the ensuing by-elections, and in the election of this week, the Liberal party has suffered an almost continuous succession of defeats. It now controls seven per cent of the seats in Parliament...