Word: anglomania
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...forceful juvenility which appeals to us all in "Tom Sawyer;" the fun, however, is meagre and the piece too young by several years; it belongs rather in the columns, let us say, of the Cambridge Latin School Review. Although one may admit that a tractate against snobbishness and Anglomania is always timely, the bald rehearsal of Cousin Harry's solecisms in "Hands Across the Sea" reads too much like a catalogue...
Among the Essays on Literature in this volume are: "A Keats Manuscript," "A World Outside of Science," "Lowell's Closing Years at Camrbidge," "Local Fiction," and "The Next Step in Journalism;" while under the caption of "Life," Colonel Higginson discusses, among other things: "The Cant of Cosmopolitanism," "Anglomania and Anglophobia," "International Marriages," "The Test of Talk," "Overclubableness," and "Living by the Church...
...question next arises, what can be substituted for the present style of dress? The only truly appropriate dress for a student is the cap and gown. Though I am not an advocate of Anglomania, I trust that the spirit of the college is too liberal to refuse to wear an appropriate dress simply because it is English. The only objection is the expense, which would not be a very large item; besides, gowns could probably be hired at reasonable rates from some enterprising tailor...
...politicians. A college professor once committed a murder; it would be rash to assume that all college professors are inclined to homicide. It is the duty of every man of brains and leisure to go into politics. Be in sympathy with your age and country, - your country especially. Anglomania is synonymous with a weak intelligence and an imperfect education...
Amherst has established a "House of Commons." The Amherst Student declares that only the most superficial observer will cry out "Anglomania...