Word: decayed
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...seems pitiable that in a University such as Harvard, a new publication of evident literary merit cannot be brought to light without a most unfair attack being made upon it by certain narrow minded editors of the established literary organ. History teaches that when satire is used, decay has set in. Surely dishonest competition, anonymously conducted, discloses a moribund state of affairs. How can a small group of men who have failed in keeping alive Harvard's undergraduate literary traditions presume to sneer out of existence a publication of real literary promise? It is merely another attempt by the "vested...
...some later period in those forty years. It will make no difference at all sixty years from now, when even the most cowardly, though he board his life as a miser hoards gold, counting it repeatedly that the tale may be complete, will have died from senile decay in a feather...
...undergraduate enters the building the atmosphere is cold, the rooms not too homelike, and the service decidedly in different. What the Union needs is "enmasse" enthusiasm. It can well do without an elephantine "frattiness," but it does need friendliness. It does need to avoid that lingering air of decay, and to cultivate the well-ordered, smooth efficiency of the city club. It does need to be homelike. If the institution is ever to escape the spectre of an annual deficit, is ever to attain hearty undergraduate support, its general atmosphere must change...
...service of no little consequence, for fine teeth contribute much to the comeliness of any human face, because the delightful human gesture called a smile usually uncovers the teeth. Next comes the process of filling or stopping the second teeth, which arrests that mysterious and perverse disintegration or decay of the bony part of the teeth which is called caries. I have already mentioned the great improvement in the materials and apparatus for filling which chemistry and physics have combined to provide. The extraction of teeth is a confession of professional failure. The dentist has not succeeded in keeping them...
...first lecture Professor Zueblin, dwell on the importance of individuality in a man's religion. In the second and third lectures he spoke of the broad realm of orthodoxy and of the modern decay of authority, and at the next lecture he took up the responsibility of the church in its effects on the happiness of a perfect moral society. Last Monday Professor Zueblin said that the great trouble of our modern life is its fragmentary character and that the best way of securing the wholeness of life is to satisfy these six great wants of human society: wealth, health...