Word: rabid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Judging, purely from the present situation, it would seem wise to consider the University as superior to the houses until the houses can be distinctive without being provincial. It is justifiable to utter a faint "Cave" against either the rabid pursuit of originality or the passive acceptance...
When a dog starts to run wildly, most people at once assume that he is rabid. But more likely he has running fits, a canine disease harmless to humans. Last year The Sportsman (monthly) asked for money to pay a scientist to find out why dogs have such fits. Many a dog lover responded generously. Dr. L. Raymond Morrison of Harvard Medical School was engaged to do the work. Because at the end of the year's research the investigation is not completed, The Sportsman is making another appeal this month for $4,000 to continue Dr. Morrison...
...time mediocrity." His plaint that all plays not professionally produced, or even all old plays not professionally revived are mediocre or worse is obviously groundless. The professional theatre is dependent, to a much larger extent than the Dramatic Club, on its box-office. And even the most rabid admirer of the general theatre-going public will hardly credit it with the same level of intelligence as a Harvard audience. The result of this state of affairs is that there are many plays which would not pass the pragmatic test of filling a New York theatre with Broadway Babbits...
...advertisements of new educational treatises which no college president should fail to read, a request from a magazine editor for his views on the Younger Generation, three complaints from parents of the faulty instruction and unjust treatment their sons are receiving, two explosions from alumni who are rabid because the team lost the last big game, and a postal card from 'A Citizen and Taxpayer' denouncing the whole institution as a sink of iniquity and a breeder of irreligion and sedition...
Pundit, patron, promoter of the New York Antique show is white-haired, amiable George W. Harper, Wesleyan graduate, onetime corporation lawyer and Belmont Estate attorney, rabid antiquarian. Four years ago Mr. Harper had a nervous breakdown, was ordered by his doctors to give up his business, travel, find and ride a hobby. He already had a hobby: antique furniture. With his wife he went to London hunting Hepplewhites. He arrived just as a great antique exhibition, organized by the London Daily Telegraph, opened at the Crystal Palace. Never before had Mr. Harper seen so many works of art assembled...