Word: toadyism
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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...
...what keeps toadyism alive, the obvious answer is the desire to be popular. Frankness of expression is not compatible with a certain popularity. Nay, more, if you would be popular, you must not by your silence let it be suspected that you inwardly frown on most or much or even some of your neighbors' modes of thought and action. Silence, because men do not know how much you disapprove, is more feared than open censure, and in the uncertainty your disapproval is overestimated, and in proportion feared...
...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...