Word: manias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Literary Mania...
Indirectly linked with these questions is a short essay, "A Literary Mania." Mr. Colby justly asserts that the appreciation of literature has been supplanted by the glibness of a catalogue, that we no longer read with enthusiasm or perception but merely with a pedantic consciousness of literary tendencies and influences. This too is the fault of the college. After a well phrased statement of this lamentable situation, Mr. Colby wisely withdraws. Perhaps at this point he became aware of certain difficulties which escaped Mr. Chapin's observation: that if we are to lift the colleges we must first lift...