Word: toadyism
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...article is to demolish the "independent man," and, we infer, to disprove the existence at college to any great degree of that fungoid growth, toadyism...
...absence of moral tone, somewhat juvenile? Certainly it is not characteristic of men to disregard morals; disregard of them is peculiar only to sots or very young men. Only when we free ourselves from these boyish views, and when we attain the moral courage to speak (i. e. when toadyism is dead), will there be manliness among students...
...Philadelphia courts have established a rule, admitting to the bar without examination all graduates of the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania. The same paper has a long editorial about Carlyle's supposed refusal of the honorary degree offered him by Harvard. Its moralization, and its aphorisms about "toadyism," are extremely amusing. The subject is treated with a gravity which reminds one of the discussion of the Cardiff Giant in recent English periodicals...