Word: mobs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...these three premises Mr. Lazarus builds, like an edifice of straw or a house of sand, the conclusion that "Harvard University, judged by its majority, is exposing itself to the ridicule of America by taking a political stand based on puerile prejudice, mob imitation and unreasoning ignorance of economic history." These the premises! This the conclusion...
...rest of the country. If those three facts are granted, as I think they must be, we are forced to the conclusion that Harvard University, being judged by its majority, is exposing itself to the ridicule of America by taking a political stand based on puerile, prejudice, mob imitation and unreasoning ignorance of economic history. All of which (is more hurtful to us in prestige and) also in the development of character here, than it can be done to the cause of President Wilson before the country...
...Harvard Regiment was notable for its size and for the cooperative spirit of its members, which was at least equal to that at the Junior Plattsburg camp. Naturally many of its enlistments were the result of mob psychology. It was one of the things that was "being done...
...would-be graduate's career, will take place on Mystery Island, which is all that the name implies. At 8 o'clock hundreds of sportive diploma-chasers will embark on the perilous trip to Marine Wharf, via the surface cars. Two steamers will be provided to transport the unruly mob to the island, and the race which these ocean greyhounds will put up will be worth going miles...
...insignificiant minority, the results of last night's Forum are in the highest degree encouraging. The argument above all others which has troubled those working towards some judicial means of setting international difficulties has been that when once the people are aroused by an appeal to emotional mob spirit, war may come no matter how clearly it can be shown to be their interest and advantage to remain at peace. That in this day of world conflict, with every possibility of this nation being swept off its feet by terror and blind fear, with an unprecedented campaign being waged...