Word: mania
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...week would be to make football a nearly winter sport. But, more than that the CRIMSON believes that any lengthening of the football season would be bad from the point of view of the players and of the College, which suffers enough, as it is, from the football mania. A touch of the mania, such as we have now, is splendid counter-irritant, but it could easily become a dangerous disease in itself. We hope that this agitation will end, like most of its kind, in nothing...
...writer has caught the spirit of rural England; it is a pleasing ramble to which he invites us. Part II of. "The Sins of the Fathers" brings out the point of the story: the inheritance of morbid and maniacal impulses; the peculiar feature is that the girl's suicidal mania is developed by her lover's inherited morbid appetite for psychological analysis-an interesting point, skillfully worked up. Two anecdotes, concerning a dog and an anaesthetic; give comedy and tragedy, with freshness and local coloring. The poetry of the number has more than the average excellence. The Lloyd McKim Garrison...
...things is very generally passing away and no one thing is of more importance in its extinction than a constantly growing body of people who are total abstinents. Some people with diseased nervous systems are utterly incapable of resisting the desire to drink it comes to them like a mania, while others have simply contracted the habit of indulgence from time to time. Although at one time alcohol was thought to pass through the system without suffering a change, it has been discovered more recently that it is destroyed in the system and in this sense is a food...
...reign he brought out three well-known comedies, namely "Volpone," "The Silent Woman" and "The Alchemist." In 1613 Jonson went to France to tutor the son of Walter Raleigh, and after returning to England wrote his comedy "The Devil is an Ass," which was directed very strongly against the mania for speculation...
...fact that some have died out and others have sprung up. During the same time the number of students has increased from 32, 316 to 41, 161, and the attendance in each college has increased twenty-four students on the average. These statistics are a favorable sign that the mania for founding new colleges is dying, while at the same time the people recognize that it is better to patronize institutions already in existence. Our surplus of colleges has threatened to become a nuisance. Were our efforts confined to improving our most powerful universities, we might well hope to rival...