Word: decrial
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...University's Commencement address. When Gen. George Marshall took the Tercentenary Theater podium in 1947, he used the occasion to announce the European recovery plan that came to bear his name. Alexsander I. Solzhenitsyn, the expatriate Russian novelist, spoke at the 1978 ceremonies, issuing a ringing and internationally publicized decrial of the West's decline. His two successors were scarcely less illustrious: Helmut Schmidt, then Chancellor of West Germany, and Cyrus Vance, who had only weeks before left the Carter Administration in protest of its handling of the Iranian hostage crisis...
...correspondent whose communication is published in an adjacent column of this morning's CRIMSON is not alone in his decrial of the new policy of the Harvard Glee Club. When Dr. Davison and his followers decided last autumn that "Australia" and "Gridiron King" had outworn their welcome as constant features on the concert programs, the instant accusation was raised. "Yes, the Glee Club has turned high-brow. They won't sing anything but classical stuff." Graduates became worried about the fate of a chorus from Cambridge that did not sing Fair Harvard upon every possible occasion, and that had fallen...