Word: anglomania
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...this fact with the necessity of Latin prayers? The English universities have kept a custom which originated in their Roman Catholic days, and are excusable for so doing; an American college, in adopting this custom without the least reason, would merely lay itself open to ridicule for its absurd anglomania. The affectation of talking about the "grandeur and solemnity" of the Latin service is not worthy of the Tablet's good sense...