Word: anglomaniac
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Dates: during 1885-1885
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - The communication of the self-styled, thoroughly American student, merits a reply through your columns. "The anglomaniac tendencies in American Universities" that have shown themselves "in peculiar dress and in strangely distorted pronunciation," in my opinion richly deserve condemnation. A man may not be less patriotic when he elects to ape our English cousins in dress and mode of speech, though he certainly puts himself in the ranks of those who would introduce a ridiculed but yet dangerous element in our society life. He is unpatriotic when he voices the sentiment that "Americans have grown wise...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - In last Wednesday's issue appeared an article purporting to be a refutation of your admirable remarks on the Anglomaniac tendencies of American colleges. The positions assumed by the author of the reply are such as to merit an indignant protest from any patriotic student of Harvard...
...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 a difference than a contradiction, and the difference results from different interpretations of what anglomania is. If the Anglomaniac can be said to be one who imitates English customs because in his heart he believes them better than the corresponding customs at home, then surely Anglomania is not to be decried. But does the Anglomaniac ever have such an excuse? Does he ever think of worth and virtue...
...CRIMSON" there was an unfavorable comment on the name chosen for the novel debating society at Johns Hopkins. It was held to be unpatriotic that the meeting of students was named and modeled after the English "House of Commons" rather than our own "House of Representatives." And, further, "the anglomaniac tendencies in American Universities" that have shown themselves "in peculiar dress and in strangely distorted pronunciation," were harshly condemned...
...aside from the particular purpose of this inquiry, there is suggested, as a more general theme, the anglomaniac tendencies in American Universities. What has shown itself else where in peculiar dress and in strangely distorted pronunciation, has moved the students at Johns Hopkins to change their debating society into a "Students' House of Commons." Surely this gives evidence that Anglomania has gone quite far enough. The "it's English, yer knaw" is a very bad principle to have established in any degree among American students, and the slightest tendencies towards this fearful Anglomania should be nipped at once. Such...