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...fact recent developments indicate that the new craze is on the verge of becoming an intercollegiate sport. The daily paper at Dartmouth has challenged the CRIMSON to a game. No definite plans have yet been made, however, for a tilt between the journalists...
...stock market decline is a book in the Baker Library of the Business School which deals with the first big stock inflation in history. It is called "He Groote, Tafereel der Dwaasheid" (The Great Picture of Foolishness) and is a collection of Dutch cartoons and satires on the speculative craze that resulted in John Law's Mississippi Company on the Continent and the South Sea Bubble in England. The book was stated on the title page to be "Printed as a Warning for Posterity, in the fatal year, of many Follies Among the Wise...
...Mississippi Company was organized by the Scotch economist and gambler, John Law, to run the French finances and monopolize the Mississippi trade. Shares were put on the market at 500 livres and mounted in the course of the craze to 20,000, although French finances were in a bad way and there was no Mississippi trade to speak of. Men sold their all and hastened to Paris, crowding the Rue Quincampoix, the Bourse of that day. Shares even were sold for a company to exploit perpetual motion and "for a design which will hereafter be promulgated." In 1820 the whole...
...read into the Corporation's decision more significance than that due the simple solution of an administrative problem. In the eternal choice between brawn and brain as the dominant force in American universities. Harvard has gone on record that she will not be stampeded into the current craze for bigger and better stadia. In assuming the position she has done more than this; she has set a definite limit to the advance of one of two forces. This step may or may not have far-reaching results, but at least it has put the University in a firm and individual...
...current craze for the day's news in tabloid has lately invaded the precincts hitherto ruled by scholarship unchallenged, and has given us history, literature, philosophy, and even the sum of man's knowledge packed between the covers of single volumes for the enrichment and delectation of those who wish to become educated in nine days. An examination of the table of contents of Mr. Parsons' book might lead one to believe that it is just another by product of the boiling-down of the elements of the story of the earth. But it is in reality more than that...