Word: reactional
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...doorsteps, must indicate some wide-spread dissatisfaction with the spirit and aims of this university. That there are really objections, however, that are serious and deserving of great concern, I do not believe. Harvard's growth and progress has perhaps been too rapid. These institutions represent a reaction. Cosmopolitanism and non-sectarianism are naturally distasteful to the provincial and sectarian. But it may be that Tufts College and the Boston University do not attempt so much to rival Harvard as to fill a position left vacant and abandoned by her many years...
There is undoubtedly a reaction setting in against the excessive fostering of athletics. President Eliot has sounded the esoteric note, and now Dr. Crosby has taken up the cry; and we may be assured that, coming from such a man, it is but the signal for an attack all along the line. - [Cornell...
...Educated in the old manner, and whipped, from our earliest days, into an acquaintance with the languages, mythologies and histories of the ancient nations, we have been obliged to remain in utter ignorance in respect to most other departments of literature." And in another place he indicates again the reaction that was going on during the early portion of this century against the frigid classicism of the preceding century. He says: "We seldom style the moon Diana, even in our verses; have dispensed with the society of Cupid; and never think of asking inspiration from Apollo or the Muses...
...towards the gradual loosening of all the time-honored and traditional ties of college and class custom, and, using the word in the etymological sense, the gradual vulgarizing of all the old and peculiar institutions of college life. This year, indeed, has seemed to mark a reaction from this tendency. At hardly any period, almost, within the memory of college students has there been such an epidemic of college hazings and escapades of all sorts. This phenomenon seems inexplicable; but we regard it as nothing more than a reaction from the inevitable tendency of which we have spoken. The movement...
There was a lull in the New York stock market yesterday, and a slight reaction took place in favor of the bears...