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...censorship is necessary. The cities are everrun with the nouveaux-riches, who have developed into theatre-going crowds since the war, just like white worms swarm out of the ground when you lift up a big, flat stone, These people can buy $5.50 theatre tickets indefinitely to satisfy their morbid curiosity for common filth...
...colleges, those institutions should be no novelty to any man or woman who knows how to read. It is difficult to find a logical reason for all the excitement; undergraduates as a whole let the world, including such newspapers and magazines, alone; why should those papers evince such a morbid interest in them? Evidently, however, their editors find that the propaganda is welcomed by a certain class of readers; if they continue their researches indefinitely, they should finally succeed in creating a mass of myths and legends concerning the College Boy--the discussion of the Younger Generations having at last...
...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...