Word: hysterias
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...Manhattan from Riverside, Conn., came last week Dr. W. E. Dentinger to speak, at a meeting of the National Life Conservation Society at the Hotel Astor, on "Musico-therapy." Just the thing, he said, for hysteria. Ladies in the audience were asked to close their eyes, relax, while a pianist concealed from view played soothingly, monotonously, Schubert's Serenade, Vice President Dawes' Melody in A. Good for cows, too, he said, makes them give more milk (see MEDICINE, p. 28), makes hens lay more eggs, helped Saul's insanity, cured Gladstone's rheumatism. Fourteen Manhattan hospitals...
...here that President Annuli's observation enters in. The outburst of intellectual interest which has been a concomitant of the recovery from war hysteria is in part the cure of the evil which Mr. Frank distinguishes and in part the evidence of a cure already achieved in institutions whose curricula remain uncluttered with foreign substance. For it is in liberal colleges that the change in undergraduate fashions in study originated and in which it has developed farthest. It was not strange Saturday that the President of the University of Wisconsin should attack in Boston the abuses of the elective system...
...asked for the Colonel's dismissal from the Army for the sake of the Army, for the sake of the young officers of the Air Service whom he misled, in the name of truth, finally "in the name of the American people, whose fears he has played upon, whose hysteria he has fomented, whose confidence he has beguiled and whose faith he has betrayed...
...often unbearable physical strain." Fortified by investigations into the case of a boy who was found to have played through a whole game "in a state of mania, a menace not only to himself but also to the other players," Dr. Paton feels himself justified in condemning "football hysteria" as "a producer of both physical and mental deterioration." Under its influence, he maintains, the mental life of American universities is being "lowered to the dead level of mediocrity." The students are "required to do so much cheering in common that they begin to think alike and consequently to lose...
...football season be taken up with such topics. "Do you think we'll beat Norwich Saturday?" but also, please, let those now and then men who come to Hanover to study in the quiet of the hills be taken to Lake Tarleton so that they can avoid the hysteria of the periodic football migrations...