Word: hysterias
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...intelligent people could be as wise before the fact as after it, few of them would be fooled into war hysteria. Many an intelligent oldster now feels less than proud, remembering the rabid slaverings of himself and the rest of the pack during the hue & cry of the World War. But in 20 years the world-at-large has forgotten how mad it was. Last week those who still had eyes to see and ears to hear were treated to the most dispassionate analysis yet rendered of how and why the U. S. was gradually sucked into Europe...
...Hysteria. A hysterical person may show every physical sign of every disease that ever afflicted mankind. A hysterical virgin may swell up as if she is about to bear a baby. A hysterical man's hand may shrivel as if palsied. Amnesia is a form of hysteria...
There is no graver portent in American life today than the determined effort to create a 'red' scare and exercise a censorship over our colleges and universities. If this campaign of terrorism and hysteria should succeed it would sound the death knell of academic freedom everywhere. Censorship by government, such as ruined the German universities overnight, is dreadful enough, but censorship by an irresponsible press which stops to dishonesty, trickery, and deceit to achieve its ends and by self-appointed super-patriotic guardians is worse; for that means censorship, passion, and prejudice and the beginning of an academic lynch...
...INSTITUTION. THERE ARE NO COMMUNISTS ON EMORY UNIVERSITY FACULTY AND NONE IN STUDENT BODY. SO FAR AS WE CAN DISCOVER WE ARE CONVINCED THAT YAGOL, WHO IS A PHI BETA KAPPA AND A MAN OF HIGH IDEALS, IS BEING PERSECUTED BY PERSONS WHO SEEK TO TURN CURRENT ANTI-RED HYSTERIA TO THEIR OWN PROFIT. HEARSTLING JACOBS' HOSTILITY TOWARD EMORY IS EASILY EXPLAINED BY FACT THAT EMORY REFUSES TO ACCEPT OGLETHORPE'S CREDIT BECAUSE THAT INSTITUTION IS NOT ACCREDITED EITHER BY SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES OR ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES...
...pause for reflection is vital," says Mrs. Jo. "Achieve that and the unfortunate woman generally saves herself. The thing is to ease their hysteria, if only for a few hours, and get them away from hysterical friends. We do this in simple little establishments called Wait-a-Bits. These we have established in both Japan and Chosen (Korea) and soon we will have Wait-a-Bits in Manchukuo...