Word: evils
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...teeth and jaws frequently cause. He can treat successfully inflamed teeth and abscesses in the jaws, both of which are apt to give exquisite pain. It is much to say of any profession that it reduces the amount or the intensity of human pain, for pain is an unmixed evil, and whoever abates it for multitudes or for one individual, is a real benefactor. As life advances, dentistry is able to repair the loss of teeth caused by wear, accident, and disease; that is, dentistry can supply artificial teeth singly, in groups, or in sets, and by doing...
Finally, the dental profession, like the medical profession, sees plainly before it a large field for research. For example, it will seek for the causes or sources of that great evil, caries. It desires to take part in learning what diet will best develop sound teeth in childhood, and maintain them in adult years. In short, reasonably content with the applications it has made during the past sixty years of acquired knowledge and skill, it aspires to win more knowledge through the efforts of its own investigators. The dental profession aspires to take part in the noble search...
...MORNING PRAYERS. Rev. P.R. Frothingham. Subject: "Overcoming Evil." Appleton Chapel...
Annually at this time, and this year in greater proportions than ever, because the demand for football tickets is heavier, the speculation evil rises anew. Tickets are being sold by speculators on State street for upwards of $15, and the regular agencies in Boston are refusing to handle tickets for the game, because the speculators demand such exorbitant prices...
Debating at Harvard has fallen on evil days; of the inter-class and inter-club debates that flourished a few years ago there is no remnant left. Annually the debates with Princeton and Yale bring into momentary prominence a small group of men, but these occasions once past, debating sinks from public notice. Possibly its lack of popularity is a phase of the present trend away from things scholarly; more likely it arises in some defect of the system by which debating is carried on here...