Word: fetishizers
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...society ever recovers from its fetish of a college education, the secondary schools may be relieved of some of the burden of cramming for college boards and may be able to evolve a broader and more elastic system of education whereby students of mediocre ability can be given a more satisfactory fitting for the world without loss of social prestige...
Pictures and comment in the Parisian journals made the homeless waifs the idols of the warm-hearted French. Some enterprising merchant fashioned a Siamese-twin-like yarn doll representing a boy and a girl which was immediately seized upon by the Poilu as a good luck fetish to be worn around the neck. Soon everyone wore them in every Allied army...
...resolution of the Unitarians that a harbinger for the future is felt. At Harvard where a premium is placed on freedom of morals and liberalism amounts to little less than a fetish, such courageous and unprecedented procedure can no more than receive hearty approbation...
...originally was a Jlittle fetish "even by French mothers, sisters or sweethearts to French Poilus. They usually were worn around the neck, in the belief that, while carried no harm would come to the soldier, just as American soldiers believed that while wearing Paris garters no metal could touch them...
...victim of advice. Yet, the first few months of college mark only the beginning of the storm of suggestion. The maze of the tutorial system and the mysteries of the magic invoked by the two words, concentration and distribution, still remain for the initiate before the advisory fetish has fulfilled its function. Today, in the New Lecture Hall, the old ritual will take place, and the Freshman will be initiated into at least the mechanics of the present system...