Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Former CRIMSON editors suffer from the mental diseases to which introverts and egocentrics are subject while the mental diseases enjoyed by former Lampoon editors are those suffered by the extrovert or altrocentric type, is it disclosed in a survey by Donald Gregg '02, published in an article in a recent number of the Harvard Graduates Magazine. The investigation uncovers the careers of the different editors who brought forth the successive issues of the CRIMSON and Lampoon throughout the first 35 years of the publications existence...
Although it is more than likely that when these gilded words meet the weary eyes of the rising scholar, the clock will be safely past the witching hour of nine, still it is deemed advisable by those powers which each day lay out monsieur's mental garb that he should today make serious effort to reach Harvard 1 by seven minutes after the hour mentioned to hear Professor Gay discourse on "A Survey of Railroad History in the United States Since 1880." Here is a topic of no mean attractiveness; there is romance enough about the growth of the railroads...
...Richard Gauber, contracted to the Vienna Opera Company, refused to return from leave of absence in Berlin because, as he explained, "he could not stand traveling and because he was able to act and sing much better before a German than an Austrian audience, as the latter affected him mentally." In evidence he offered Dr. Freud's analysis of his mental eddies. The judge gravely studied the report and decided that it was quite proper for Singer Gauber to break his contract and stay away from Vienna...
...subscribers. The rest pay 50c per month at newsstands. "Urbane and washed," as Mr. Mencken describes them, they open at once to that "fearful and wonderful" digest, "Americana," where that portion of the population which has had the least educational advantage is made to seem ridiculous by juxtaposing its mental fumbles with the studied brilliance of sophisticates. The success of the magazine to date has been one of circulation. Now it is going to try to make money. It will seek to demonstrate to manufacturers that people who enjoy jibes at Fundamentalists, machine politics, President Coolidge and the foes...
...Muncie weekly continued to rub salt in His Honor's wounds. Typical salt was an inference by Editor Dale that the reason Judge Dearth's daughter ran away from home might be, not mental derangement, but moral. The girl was later found dead in a river. But Judge Dearth, irate and mortified, had meantime over-exerted his powers by arresting newsboys, confiscating their Post-Democrats and forbidding them to sell any more. The howl that Editor Dale was able to put up over this and other "Dearth scandals" persuaded the board of managers of the Indiana House...