Word: mob
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...suggestiveness of the presentation all readers will agree. Taking the development of loyalty as the test of the ethical value of the sport, Professor Royce examines the temper, not of the players but of the spectators. Extravagant publicity, distracting and confusing social influences, many of the evils of the mob spirit, are undeniably present. It is not so clearly demonstrable that the game, under present conditions of attendance, favors "in the mass of spectators a loyal life and a practical love of loyalty." This is Professor Royce's test of the real value of the game. To confute him would...
...General of 1789, and told the story of the burning of the toll-gates, the closing of the Opera, the sack of the Hotel des Invalides, and finally the storming of the Bastille. The murder of Delaunay, the governor of the fortress, caused the latent bloodthirstiness of the Paris mob, whose excesses have become so famous, to break forth in all its fury...
...riches and worldly pleasures in which so many lives are lost. It will also deliver us from the crazy desires for worldliness, the craving to be up with the crowd. We must remember it is much better to be left behind with Christ than to keep up with the mob...
...scandalous libels which the adventuress Jeanne de la Motte directed against the queen--turned into hatred the former national popularity of innocent Marie Antoinette. Once the tide had turned, each new mistake of the Court augmented the public exasperation; and, after the fall of the Bastile, the infuriated mob, breaking into the palace of Versailles, attempted the murder of the queen, and drove the royal family to Paris...
...have in the class, in spite of the letting down of the bars due to the elective system, should make every man proud to wear the togs that mark him as a member of the class. If we can make one large sympathetic unit out of the present mob calling themselves seniors, we can well afford to put up with the slight discomfort of light skirts flapping about our knees. A SENIOR...