Word: hysterias
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...pattern of the game was designed to reduce spectators to mild hysteria. Harvard opened the scoring almost immediately as Bill Garrity took a goal mouth pass from Carl Timpson and flicked it in. Midway in the opening period, Northeastern took advantage of a Harvard penalty to make a four man rush on the lone defenseman and goalie Chase it was a sure fire scoring play...
...succeed Koussy. The New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson had heard Munch conduct 15 years before in Paris and had prophesied that he would eventually lead the Boston. Why? Says Critic Thomson: "He was a natural Boston conductor, flat-stomached and grey-haired, and he created hysteria, particularly in the female over...
International tensions since the war have brought under scrutiny freedoms that went unquestioned during the thirties. People now ask how much freedom should be permitted those whom they believe seek to destroy freedom, a questioning which has on occasion caused mass hysteria and endangered individual rights...
This maelstrom of hysteria has never caught up the Dean's Office, and, indeed, Dean Bender's defense of the John Reed Club's right to sponsor a speech at Harvard by Gerhart Eisler was a strong statement of the case for individual liberties and free discussion. But the cold war has not entirely passed the College by, and it has, in fact, helped to shape the limitations on undergraduate activities...
After such a poor season as 1949, and when the local press is running story after story on "what to do about Harvard football," no responsible official should say anything until the hysteria dies down. The next football season doesn't begin until September 1. Nor should such an official say anything only two days after the papers have run screamer headlines, true or untrue, on a player revolt...