Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since late November influenza has been increasing throughout western Europe at so alarming a rate that public health officials have come to fear a pandemic, a world-wide occurrence of this disease, such as happened in 1918-19. Already Switzerland, Germany England and France have been severely hit. At Nantes, France, the undertakers reported last week that they were four days behind with their burials. Their crogue-morts* complained of sore feet and demanded subsidy for new shoes. In Italy the authorities claimed they have no epidemic. But no gloss was smeared over the situation in Spain, Ireland, Scotland...
...which the new awakening was at first greeted in official quarters. It is a well known psychological fact that movements such as these. If actively discouraged, ignored, or condemned, become subversive. They tend, in other words, to be merely destructive criticism, or wild-eyed and impractical idealism: The very fear which prompts the suppression complex is realized. The more professional educators realize this, and the more they lend their active interest and encouragement, the more this undergraduate movement will be productive of sane, practical, and constructive work...
...small mountain. I can only believe the press. (Grace and I were never confidential although we both have spent our lives in or near Vermont.) But the press reports that there isn't a mountain high enough for such honor. I would amend that to say, didn't fear a war with the vested interests, that there isn't a mountain low enough...
...strength both; and neither would be to strength both; and neither would lose touch, since the title of Yale University would, as it does now, include both "Sheff" and the college. This tendency toward simplification is but another example of the present Oxford movement. When colleges cease to fear the restrictions of names a great advance will have been accomplished. Tradition will remain inviolate as long as the spirit of an institution flourishes. And certainly the News platform does not point to the contrary. No longer can American colleges rely solely on the past. What faces educators of today...
...fear of after-effects. After Christmas the show will positively close. On the front pages, on the floor of Congress, everywhere, big boy Prosperity will perform alone. His ballyhoo brigade does its stunts twelve months in the year...