Word: fetishize
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...breaking of athletic relations between major universities is slowly coming to be a fetish. They become more macabre when viewed in the light of the apparently minor incidents on which they are invariably based. Beneath all this past exchange of blows, Harvard plays Princeton on the Yale golf course today. A natural corollary might be a meeting of Harvard and Princeton undergraduates on Yale soil to bury the hatchet. The suggestion is not new. It was proferred by the Yale Student Council at the time of the break. It might still succeed on one condition: that it be an undergraduate...
...Senator Claude A. Swanson of Virginia, ranking Democrat on the Committee. A large part of the Senate agrees with them that the cruiser is essential for the protection of U. S. commerce, that the Navy's lack of cruisers should be rectified. Extremists in this group, making a fetish of navies, are rankled by British and Japanese cruiser preponderance. They demand a navy equal to any in the world, consider possible wars with England or Japan...
Throughout Europe the dry aspect of the Hoover victory continues to set best minds powerfully a-pondering. Suspicions stir that U. S. post-War prosperity may be due in large measure to prohibition. Just now the golden fetish of "American Methods" has wondrous kudos on the Continent (see France "American Methods"). In London last week the World Prohibition Federation held a belated mass meeting "to celebrate the triumph of Prohibition in the American victory of Herbert Hoover...
Last night two of the Freshman H-Y-P triangular debates were held at Princeton and at Cambridge. The questioned argued was: "Resolved, That the fetish of efficiency is a deplorable feature of modern life." The University Freshman combination, which upheld the affirmative side at Paine Hall, was composed of A. L. Kowarsky '31, A. S. Gilmartin '31, and W. H. Bowden '31, Their opposition was furnished by the Yale debaters W. E. Russell Jr. J. T. Miller, and J. T. McClintlock. Due to the small size of the audience, no decision was made after the debate...
...trials for the Freshman H-Y-P triangular debate will be held on Monday night at 7 o'clock in the Smith Hall Common Room. The question to be argued is: "Resolved, That the fetish of efficiency is a deplorable feature of modern life...