Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with activity, ruled by the iron hand of mob psychology how can the college of today foster genius, cherish the artist, inspire the idealist? Mr. Henry Rood, writing in the February Scribner's, would like to know. And he would like to know, too, what place the modern college would find for Emerson, Poe, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, and their great contemporaries. Being a shrewd observer Mr. Rood answers his last question as every thoughtful undergraduate could answer it: the college would first force these men "to wear hats and caps of the same style, suits and overcoats...
...from liberal undergraduate opinion to take issue with Zona Gale upon the faults and fallacies of education by examination. At this period of the year the evils of examinations seem hugely disproportionate to the good, and the mob impulse lurking even in indifferent Harvard breasts surges forth to cry "Down with 'em!" at the first sign of a leader...
...orchestra. Much of the dialog is written in the jumpy idiom of jazz. The several scenes are mostly bizarre paintings on flat drops. Exits and entrances are made from the orchestra pit. Even the stage-door alley beside the auditorium is employed for off-stage movements of the noisy mob...
...those who disparage American students' innoculation against public excitement, it need only be said that they overestimate the interest of the mob in political controversy. Aside from a few weeks' bombardment by pamphlets, orators and advertising appeals, the average citizen is not aroused by political questions. The quarreling factions of previous decades have settled down to an equilibrium of mutual toleration. The man in the street is blase over political propaganda: he is not excited even to a mild passion by the most importunate of oratory. If all men accept politics so peaceably, is it reasonable to expect college...
...order that all good Americans must discard their winter footgear by the first of May, if they dare to appear upon the streets. The annual straw hat joke is perpetrated so thoroughly that to the vulgar mind a soft hat seems ridiculous after a certain date. Advertising and the mob's fear of itself have set this barbaric custom beyond the reach of common sense. If the boot and shoe dealers succeed in their resolution of attaching another lichen to the American moss-back, he on this side of the Atlantic will soon be unbearable...