Word: perished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where marriage is a mockery, so it has fallen to my lot as a patriot to kill you. This is a solemn warning that I shall do so." In numerous other notes polysyllabic English writers informed Mrs. Simpson that the date draws nigh when she will indubitably perish...
...Canada, the U. S. and the West Indies were Peace and Christian Unity. Washington's Bishop James Edward Freeman opened the Pan-American Congress with this observation: "State craft has utterly failed to abolish war, and Christianity must come to the rescue or civilization and the church will perish from the earth!'' Bishop Irving Peake Johnson of Colorado disagreed. Said he: "It is impossible for the church to alter political systems. . . . The church exists to produce righteous people and that is a Herculean task." Gloomily observed Chicago's Bishop George Craig Stewart, host to the Congress...
Pudding pledges "running for Dickey" in the Yard. Brinton says they are "conforming to the aggregates of the community." Sort of thing all Individuals have to do or perish. Compensate for economic abnormalities with discipline in other things...
...Lowell, in the face of much opposition, founded the Business School, the opportunity was given for an interesting display of intellectual snobbishness. Hidebound conservatives in the field of education refused to see in a graduate school for the training of business men anything more than another novelty which would perish at its first encounter with the "cold, cruel world" of business itself. Even now, many professors continue to regard Mr. Donham and his staff as coming from the "wrong side of the Charles River...
...come. But there have been periods of sickness, even of decay, in the history of almost every academic foundation. If one of the four vital streams I have mentioned either fails or swells to a torrent, thus destroying the proper balance of nourishment, then the true university tradition may perish. The cultivation of learning alone produces not a university but a research institute; the sole concern with the student life produces an academic country club or merely a football team manoenvering under a collegiate banner. On such abnormalities we need not dwell, but I should like to take...