Word: decayed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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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...