Word: anglomania
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...last issue of the Lampoon is a brilliant one. The communications on "Anglomania" are excellent travesties on the Crimson's communications on that subject. Lampy indeed compares excellently with its more ambitious contemporaries. - Princetonian...
...defender of Anglomania is pleased to adopt a tone of injured liberality in condemning the "narrowing down of our models," and further continues, - "I cannot see that I am less patriotic because finding that the dress of Englishmen is more becoming or their speech more musical than our own, I try to copy after them in these respects." The italics are mine...
...pretend to be what one is not is dishonest as well as ill-bred. Does the defender of Anglomania think social dishonesty "betters" Americans. I am generous enough to believe he does not. When we see Anglomaniacs imitating the splendid intellectual life of Gladstone, the magnificent commonsense of Bright, the brilliant shrewdness of Beaconsfield, the CRIMSON, I take it, will not rebuke the tendency. For obvious reasons, however, it will be too much to expect from Anglomaniacs...
...subject of Anglomania has perhaps had quite enough prominence in our columns. We may, however, be pardoned for once more touching upon it ourselves. All the writers on Anglomania seem to agree on one point, namely, that they want a true patriotism among American students. But their ideas as to methods for securing this seem to differ widely. One faction would have us avoid all following after English ways; the other faction protests against such a "narrowing down of our models," and urges us to be Englishmen if we think Englishmen superior to Americans. This apparent contradiction is rather...
...setting the whole subject of Anglomania aside, we wish to say that we have welcomed the communications that have come to us, and regret that our space has not allowed us to publish them all. We hope that the students of the college will never hesitate to use our columns either for contradicting our opinions or for setting up opinions of their own. These debates on paper may be conducted with interest and profit...