Word: morbidities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Post has the opinion of university deans, faculty members, and psychologists as to why this morbid tendency has spread among students. It is now endeavoring to find out how undergraduates themselves interpret the abnormal attitude which some of the students seem to have toward life...
Thus, last week, progressed what theorists and newspapers described with morbid jubilance as "the student suicide wave." The total self-destructions since New Year's readied 21. Dire views continued to be expressed on the evil influence of new philosophies, new psychology, and of high-pressure school requirements. At the University of Baltimore, 13 undergraduates were inspired to form an Anti-Suicide Club, with the powerful motto: "Live and let live". . . . President Raymond Allen Pearson of the University of Maryland submitted: "Abnormal living is causing this chain of student suicides . . . imitation of what they see in their elders". . . . Amelita Galli...
...University and students. . . . To continue, it has been a favorite recreation for the scholastic mind to keep fighting cocks in their rooms; bull dogs but a short time since graced their appearance on the street, or afforded them pleasure in secret brutal contests. . . . When we consider the morbid state of mind possessed by those collegians who night after night sat before the footlights of the notorious Soldene, and rose after each act in a body to resort to a liquor saloon near by, we are not surprised at other (perhaps but little lower) exhibitions of a mind thoroughly imbued with...
TIME, sophisticated, with no inferiority complex, has been my frequent luncheon companion; its morbid MISCELLANY (TiMB, Jan. 3, p. 20) discourages such hospitality...
...Thus the two great morbid phenomena which attack the organism, inflammation and cancer, appear to us today from the biological point of view distinctly different, one from the other. And perhaps it is because we have mistakenly tried to bring them together that the majority of investigations on the origin of cancer have up to the present time resulted only in failure."-Gustav Roussy of Paris...