Word: manias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...America's pet hobbies is "pledging". The average American gives little thought to signing a pledge, and so this process of extracting promises has become a much-abused one. The pledge-making a mania has not stopped with the Boy Scouts and the Sunday school but has found its way into prospective legislation in the form of a bill now before the New York Assembly which proposes that public school teachers be required to take an oath of allegiance to the Constitution. The purpose of the bill is to eliminate communistic and other extreme propaganda threatening our present system...
...without any likeness to the other college magazines. "The "Aristocrat" announces that "not with the eye of philosopher or critic, avoiding the quip and lesson of reformer, standing aside from bustle," it treads "the ways of antiquity," and it offers the modest hope that it may "calm the undergraduate mania for achievement with a leaven of whimsical humor...
...deliberately plans to "put one over" on the Faculty is not the clear thinker. He is still immature, still the small boy with a spit-ball mania. To him, his teacher is some far-off monster forcing down his throat--teaching--something that he is convinced will do him no good. His imagination makes his deceitfulness seem clever and in his cleverness he loses sight of the fact that the teacher is not the person who is there to teach but the person from whom he can learn. Failure to learn on the part of the student is no loss...
...fact that a score of blazes developed simultaneously shows it is unlikely the fire was accidental. So monstrous a plot could not logically have been concocted by men crazed with the "firebug" mania, and as Worcester is well-known for its radical element, the finger of guilt seems to point at Bolshevism. Coupled with previous and similar losses, and recent strikes in the manufacturing plants on the same scene, the case against the "reds" gathers weight. Until definite proof is offered, of course, it were folly to assume on the spur of the instant that any special group...
...music is light and catchy, and "The Old Town", "The Star of Hitchy-Koo", "Dance-O'Mania", "Moon of Love" and "The Old Bell" were particularly applauded...