Word: contagion
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...training is not the result of chance or of the action of local school or public officials. It is not the mere contagion of a purpose temporarily in the minds of many people. It is encouraged, supervised and regulated by the War Department. The purpose is to make soldiers. It is not training in citizenship, or any vague and ill-defined training of a general military nature. The official object is to provide systematic military training at civil educational institutions for the purpose of qualifying selected students of such institutions for appointment as reserve officers in the military forces...
...people are so pathetically ignorant as your well-informed man. The radio has bred this form of mental contagion to an alarming extent in the rural districts. Tom, Tom, the farmer's son, instead, of leading books on fertilizers, on grafting, on pheasant raising, as more sensible fellows may be doing, spends his evenings listening to talk about the condition of the soap and toothpaste industry, about stocks and bonds, about Florentine painting, about Peter Rabbit. To combat this absurdity the universities of Iowa, of Pittsburgh, and the Kansas State Agricultural College have seen fit to sow the wind...
...infection arouses no thrill of admiration in most readers of the daily prints. It is hard to see just who will profit by the experiment. If the doctors escape the disease after nine days confinement in a penthouse, it will prove that some persons are less susceptible to contagion than others. If they die of the plague, as seems quite likely, it will prove nothing. In neither case, will there be any great advancement of medical science. The contemplated experiment is both foolhardy and uncalled...
...monument of misapplied energy" and "machinelike assiduity," the dig, grind, poler, swatter, the "young man or woman of mediocre or worse calibre who lacks initiative, personality, creative energy. . . ." Prof. Burton, a man evidently conversant with culture in many forms, was scornful of that form which is "a sort of contagion; you get it by being exposed...
...fever heat this week, culminated yesterday afternoon in a wild march to the Stadium, in frenzied shouting and yelling once there, and in a furious snake dance all the way back to Harvard Square. Captain Greenough's team will meet the Bulldog an inspired combination, if they catch the contagion of enthusiasm which is raging through the college...