Word: decays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...list of commentators on the decay of the CRIMSON now is to be added the name of one of the paper's own presidents. W. I. Nichola '26, Assistant Dean of the University, who in an open letter to the Editor of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin expresses his views on the subject...
Boston, it has often been said, is in the last stages of decay--its ancient and vaunted "culture" gone to places where is will be more appreciated. Novels and magazine articles have been written on the subject, and trial cases have been fought in Boston's police court to establish the right of culture to be forced down decadent throats by authors and publishers of more learned cities...
...Montemayor and Pepita, her companion, Esteban, the brother of Manuel, Uncle Pio, and Don Jaime the son of the actress whom he had loved and made famous. Now why had a bridge upon whose miraculous high path everyone in Peru had stepped at one time or another postponed its decay to include these particular people in its destruction? Was it an accident or an intention? Author Wilder explores the lives of the five; each one had achieved in life, just before the falling of the Bridge of San Luis Rey, a kind of completion. So at the end, "There...
...great mass of our people, . . . know that the doctrine of ease is the doctrine of decay. . . . The heart of the nation is sound...
...braided about her head. Her fingers were small and thin, bent strangely about a fiddle, were quick among the fiddle strings, weighted with music." She grew up in a Southern town, a town in which the strong rhythms of life were matched against a cold and dreadful rhythm of decay. There were three men who came to her house, listening to the dark music of her instrument, bringing with them some hot beauty from life. "Conway calling alone would talk of himself, sitting happily in the dim light of the parlor and enjoying his heightened self, his ease, his good...