Word: hysterias
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When the Kellogg scare seemed guttering at Washington last week, despatches reported less hysteria in Mexico...
...protect him in the same way as the proper serums protect humans against typhoid fever or smallpox. This was one of the means used to fight the recent rabies situation in Louisville, Ky. (TIME, Dec. 27). But useful as is the serum, the literature has been causing a mild hysteria about "mad dogs" across the country...
...Joseph Jastrow of the University of Wisconsin replied, not sparing Sir Arthur in his absence. He put spiritism in a class with witchcraft, hysteria and paranoiac illusion, charging spiritualists, as distinct from psychic researchers, with "wishful thinking and logic-blindness." He was at pains, however, to appreciate the large significance of spiritualism's implications, whether they be baffling truth or "stupendous" error...
This apology for hysteria would bear more reality if its first premise were true; but has hazing actually been replaced by football? At Harvard the problem of violent welcomes has been nicely solved by years of tradition; there are many colleges and universities, however, where class rushes are still as popular, where Freshman fights are as great a ceremony as ever before the regime of football. So if President Butcher considers football as the lesser of two evils he is merely adding it to the greater. His refutation of Mr. White's argument is not sound. It is possible that...
...should advise every foreigner to avoid Italy unless necessity takes him there. . . . The attitude toward all foreigners at present is hostile and arrogant. Toward France it is not quite sane. . . . One must see the mobs rushing through the streets shouting: 'Down with France!' to understand the hysteria of feeling...