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...other side of the question was aired by several younger instructors in the School who said that the material was decrepit and that the material was not forthcoming for improvement...
President Lowell, although he never revealed the reason for prohibiting engineers from the Houses, might well have had in mind the object of developing a matchless graduate school. The complaints however, coming in the main from graduate students, indicate that no such transformation has taken place. They point out decrepit laboratories, ancient equipment, and deficient courses...
...should arrive late from another dinner in Pierson College. Mrs. Angell, not quite able to reconcile herself to attending a very formal affair without Hubby, called in her children for a conference on the matter. The young-ones ransacked the toys of their youth to bring forth only a decrepit wool-stuffed policeman-doll. Mrs. Angell smoothed its uniform somewhat but couldn't do anything about the runs in the flat-foot's stockings. Nevertheless she sallied forth in full evening dress with the sergeant in her arms. The butler was visibly astonished but imagined that there...
...imperial pronunciamento of the Fascist Grand Council of Italy has thrown another bomb at the decrepit League of Nations. The League is to be bullied into reform or else the delegation of Italy as well as that of Germany and Japan will be missing from Geneva. Coming as an anti-climax to the recent flood of nationalistic out-bursts, Italy's cry seems too obviously a bid to be heard, a youngish boast of a rising power henceforth to be reckoned with by the other big powers. But reform of the League of Nations' covenant is and has been...
...finally drink, became his only interest in life. When he saw that his own disintegration was an echo of the Empire's break-up he resigned from the army. Then came War; he re-enlisted and was shot ingloriously in a border skirmish. His aged father and the decrepit Emperor were left to watch their world dissolve...