Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their tutees. The objection has formerly been raised that the Freshman Class is too large to allow tutoring but this group would be small enough to enable administration of the plan, it would have an exceptionally small mortality, and it would be more intellectually select than the undimensioned mob which now inhabits the Yard...
...night last November a detail of Tampa, Fla. police raided a committee meeting of radicals who were busy promoting "the unemployed struggle." Six agitators were carted off to headquarters, questioned, released. Thereupon a masked mob promptly picked up three of them, whisked them away to a swamp outside town, beat, tarred, feathered them. Hospitalized, one of the agitators named Shoemaker subsequently died. It was widely reported in Tampa that police had been members of the masked mob...
Ominous darkness comes on; darkness bred of the mob's hatred, misunderstanding, greed, vanity, fear and jealousy as much as of the gathering clouds, ill winds and troubled water. The earth shakes and with it murders' philosophies. Soldiers flee! Women scream, Crucifixion's cry is soon silenced and only one voice is heard; "Forgive them for they know not what they...
...Public Speaking Department complete without debating. The value of the courses given is unquestioned. But it is one thing to sway an unthinking mob or a pack of loungers softened by a hearty dinner and good wind and quite another thing to grapple with an intellect fully as keen as one's own. Mental agility and trenchant powers of persuasion can best be developed through debating...
Experts on infant psychology refused to comment officially on the startling revelations, but one leading authority anonymously states, "It is indeed a sad commentary on the youth of this great institution, that they needs must flee to the vulgar and profane amusements of the mob for relaxation...