Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public opinion and the undue emphasis placed on outside activities, another unfortunate tendency has developed. When a student feels that he is just one of 1600 members of an undergraduate school at New Haven and is not conscious that he is an integral part of his class, the natural reaction is to seek out men of his own stamp rather than resort to the company of the fellow next door. Instead of having a small and solid class unit, the tendency is for similar men of like interests to get together in their own tight little worlds and carry...
...that afflicts a small boy when he is taken, for the first time, to school. Unlike poodles or pomeranians, basset hounds are not pleased by admiring stares; they prefer running in the fields and smelling footprints in the grass. What would have been the small basset hound's reaction had the greatest U. S. dog show been carefully described to him, had some crass soothsayer delineated for his amazement an event like many in which he will, there can be no doubt, participate...
...interested-perhaps unpleasantly-in knowing that the article on Cincinnati, in TIME, Jan. 30, has created in Cincinnati a reaction quite unfriendly to your publication...
...Reaction and Opposition under Alexander 1 of Russia," Professor Karpovich, Sever...
...copy: The truly unfortunate part of the attack is not that it discovers in track a sport that has pushed football out of the cellar position in the academic pennant race, even though such discovery may prove a hardship to many article writers. Grave astonishment is the natural reaction to the unsportsmanlike conduct of the Carnegie Institute. The athlete, helpless under what has been called "the dumbing influence of athletics", is struck down with an adding machine and his body run over by the juggernaut of the intelligence quotient. He cannot answer his assailants: they themselves have said that...