Word: morbid
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...tale. The question of collection is quite imminent. That part of the story seems to be progressing with difficulty. It is not to be doubted that those who have pledged will eventually make good their promise. Yet at present the undergraduate body might well be accused of having "a morbid propensity to sloth and procrastination." The collection of these pledges is ordinarily no easy work since they are so widely scattered. This gift of the University was not from a few, but from the whole body of students. Let us expedite this work by turning in our money at Phillips...
...Rescue" is a gloomy story of hereditary insanity. Anna Warden, a young girl of a family tainted with suicidal mania, is expectantly watched by an aunt scarcely sane herself. The aunt's morbid and excited precautions are rapidly sending Anna the way of her ancestors. She is rescued by a faithful old servant who tells her that she is an illegitimate child and "not a Warden" except in name. The story is a lie; but it saves the girl, who goes, with new hope, to work. The play is well written and was well acted throughout. Miss Ellis...
...this sporting philosophy by which the American undergraduate lives, and which he seems to bring with him form his home, may be a very good philosophy for an American. It is of the same stuff with our good-humored contempt for introspection, our dread of the 'morbid', our dislike of conflicting issues and insoluble problems. The sporting attitude is a grateful and easy one, Issues are decided cleanly. No irritating fringes are left over. The game is won or lost. Analysis and speculation seem superfluous. The point is that such a philosophy is as different as possible from that which...