Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bravado of its officials make accurate facts inaccessible; and the unusual circumstances of its acts encourage publicity out of all proportion to their real importance. Its professed policy, of upholding law and order and Anglo-Saxon supremacy in-the face of duly appointed officials, frightens the public into exaggerated alarm, as does all questioning of established authority...
...accomplished by "scrapping" all paid coaches, is the requisite panacea. From coast to coast, those interested in the welfare of football have spoken, the concensus of opinion being that football is the finest of sports, but that something must be done to save it. This is no false alarm; the game is in danger of professionalization, and unless more than passing consideration is awarded its problems, whether it will remain the "finest of sports" is questionable...
With the "revival of learning" again comes a revival of interest in shot guns, rifles, revolvers, automatics, alarm clocks, tin horns, and noise makers of every variety, including the ancient Chaldean instrument, the vox humana, to disturb the night air at about...
...When generations of graduates have found that college training made life sufficiently more interesting as to warrant their sending their sons back to the old institutions, is it surprising that alumni become anxious lest the modern college become a genteel trade school? But there need be no cause for alarm; at the end of his college career the average student will agree that the graduate schools should be increased to infinitum if need be, but that the college itself must be guarded from the commercialization of culture...
Although it is inconceivable that any sedate Harvard instructor would ever consciously encroach upon his neighbor's ground, there need be no alarm at the possibility. Competition may be as essential to the welfare of academic life as it is in the business world; at any rate, students will unfailingly elect courses that present the facts in the most inviting and digestible form. If all instructors are obliged to vie one with another in catering to popular demand, college faculties might be stimulated to produce some particularly palatable food for thought...