Word: furor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After all, the agitation in English sport circles and the furor aroused over here at this seeming Americanization of English sport is scarcely justified by facts. Students from this country have been going to Oxford and Cambridge ever since Jamestown days, and the institution of Rhodes Scholarships certainly has not lessened the number. It is only natural that this continued inflow should make some impression on England's educational pool...
Faculty and alumni. Faculty and alumni and undergraduates. Where are the undergraduates in all this furor and excitement? Everyone, somewhat including themselves, seems to forget that they have something to say--for after all they are the ones who are concerned; and supposedly if the students will tolerate subsidized athletics, it is all right. Plainly enough, undergraduates have been at fault, because if they are unwilling to have members of a college play on a team, if aided because of athletic ability, it is probable that no one would receive money for such ability. We fall...
...interesting, too, to see all the furor which the speech has caused. Nothing especially new or starting was advanced--nothing, that is which has not been generally accepted as true for several decades. It was only a revoicing, with certain necessary modifications, of Lincoln's thesis is some sixty years ago. The days of Roosevelt must be slipping into oblivion if a frank statement of facts can throw most of our population off its mental balance. A few more such surprises might serve as healthful stimulation...
...this Hunchun incident, chance also plays favorably with Japan as regards American problems. The unfavorable legislation in California has created something of a furor. There have been fierce campaigns in the Japanese press, public opinion is aroused, threats of war have been made--even official Tokio assumes to be "touched and grieved." But it is well to remember that Japanese immigrants in California mean nothing in comparison with Japan's imperialistic ambitions; it is in Siberia, Manchuria, China, that her real interests lie. America has been distinctly curious concerning these interests during the past year or two. It has befriended...