Word: mania
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fact that some have died out and others have sprung up. During the same time the number of students has increased from 32, 316 to 41, 161, and the attendance in each college has increased twenty-four students on the average. These statistics are a favorable sign that the mania for founding new colleges is dying, while at the same time the people recognize that it is better to patronize institutions already in existence. Our surplus of colleges has threatened to become a nuisance. Were our efforts confined to improving our most powerful universities, we might well hope to rival...
...Fortnight contains the following Harvard notes: "The Advocate has been adopted as a text book in the English Lit course. - The faculty are at present sitting on the new petition for voluntary prayers. - A freshman has been suspended for cutting his teeth. - Beside small-pox, several cases of anglo-mania have broken out. The Crimson has them well under way, however. - Efforts are being made to remove Boylston Museum and Francis street to cambridge. - The conference have voted that (h)ashes must not be slung on the slippery floor in Memorial Hall...
...House of Commons." Surely this gives evidence that Anglomania has gone quite far enough. The "it's English, yer knaw" is a very bad principle to have established in any degree among American students, and the slightest tendencies towards this fearful Anglomania should be nipped at once. Such a mania, among college men in particular, is likely to do no end of evil, tending to destroy all national individuality. If our students cannot be Americans, the time may come when the students of to-day, having become leaders and statesmen, will desire America's return to the mother country...
...first thing which occupies the mind of a German student is a mania for dueling, and if he has plenty of money and the inclination, he joins a corps. These corps at Heidelberg are five in number, and are distinguished by white, green, yellow, blue and red caps. Those belonging to the first two must have at least 6,000 marks (about $1500) a year, and are generally of noble blood...
...some upper classmen, is that of surreptitiously "appropriating" the signs of Cambridge tradesmen. As long as this annoyance was limited to our hereditary extortioners, we were content to pass over the transgression in silence. When, however, our esteemed contemporary, the Lampoon, is subjected to a loss by the mania for decorative signs and shingles, it is incumbent upon us to protest against the extension of this line of business. In a communication to the CRIMSON, the editors of the Lampoon have stated their grievance. They are robbed of a considerable sum of money by the diminished sale of papers, which...