Word: manias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...least worthy guard is self reliance. In a large group of men, such as at a college or university, there is often a species of gregarious frenzy which might be termed the herd spirit. It is the Crimson's belief that there is less of this mania evidenced at Harvard than at any other institution, but no college can be entirely free from its ravages. The preventative lies in each case with the man himself, for every man has his own means of fortifying his castle...
Author Oemler estimates the subject of her biography at his face value. Writing in the manner of fiction, she draws bold conclusions from his actions, makes no attempt to soften his cruelties on the excuses of religious mania. Yet human beings are more important than idols and the First Methodist is not diminished by stringent treatment. He emerges, a conceivable person, lecherous as well as righteous, prurient as well as pure, jealous of a girl as well as zealous for his God. Author Oemler treats him curtly but with even justice. The serious nature of the book may surprise that...
...main, Saltacres is a study in novelists' materials. Reeds, rushes, weatherbeaten barns, pebbled beaches, a whitish sea, gulls and blackbirds gliding and skimming from foam-splashed boulder to knotted and salt-rimed stump, broken love to the tattoo of sympathetic rains and a pathological religions mania to the cresendo of a venegeful thunderstorm, delight the eye and, chaotically enough, provoke the emotions but the relation of these things to a masterful novel is less than that of sand to granite. Not only should, in this case the parts or particles cohere more closely but there might well be other elements...
Spring brings her senior superlatives in the form of the best dressed, most charming, least objectionable and what not members of the graduating class. Perhaps it is the American mania for statistics, or the general vernal disintegration of mental faculties which produce these announcements that bring such joy to the hearts of collar manufacturers and movie stars. At any rate they are the vogue in many places, including, Princeton. And although Harvard possesses no superlatives of its own it has managed this year to receive mention in the array of immortals; for is it not ranked by the discerning Princeton...
Fearful of the Scripps-Howard threat to his monopoly* of Rocky Mountain attention, Publisher Bonfils of Denver had taken, with a presidential speech, liberties which predicated not merely immorality but mania...