Word: ruined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...today it is a confession, calling for excuses and apologies, to admit concentration in the Classics. One feels almost ashamed to be seen leaving a Greek course, the old classical library has fallen into the hands of the Business School, and only one table has been saved from the ruin for those who read Horace in the original-and only one is required...
...such reasoning dominate us, however, then we shall wallow in the pool or stagnation. I know of one very small matter which I feel needs prompt and serious attention. The idea seems trifling because it can be summed up in one word-blackboards. I ruin my eyesight trying to decipher diagrams in Harvard 6. I lose thirty minutes in copying hundreds of figures on paper in my accounting class that meets in upper Massachusetts. I fall to get assignments and notices because at times it is impos- sible to distinguish between the board and the chalk. On occasions I have...
Nevertheless, China must sooner, or later respond to the positive influence of a commercial world which offers itself. The question is, will she gain or suffer thereby? The author barely intimates that commercialism and contact with the West will spell her ruin, even as materialistic progress spelled ruin for the other great civilizations of history. This argument deserves weight, but clearly falls to envisage all the facts. The picture painted of a peaceful country sufficient unto itself falls to show in the background the squalor and poverty of the basic population, the bare existence in normal times and the plagues...
...Ledger" pictures many of our institutions of higher learning going to ruin because "the undergraduates are rapidly taking control of the universities out of the hands of the faculties" compare this with the very letter on which the tirade is based. The President says: "The success of the Honor System in examinations and the high moral standards of Princeton men are due to this justified confidence in student government in all personal matters...
Powerfully and eloquently depicting the "bankruptcy and starvation" of Central Europe, and the ruin of Germany, which he characterized as "beyond recovery", Dr. Mez enumerated the world's three greatest needs today. The primary need is disarmament; the next: elimination of debts; the greatest: economic and political unity...