Word: bugaboo
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Disliking as cordially as any Harvard man the bugaboo of "indifference" I shall take issue with your correspondent on only one of her remarks, although I can hardly follow her in such charges as "indifference toward academic work," "no getting together, no unity or bond of any sort," and being "cheated out of companionship," at Harvard. Of this it would seem that Harvard fellowship throughout the world is sufficient refutation...
...cooperate directly with the bureau; on the other, the University itself can arrange to employ students more generally than in the past in the carrying out of its manifold activities. Once given a fair trial the student employee, even in University positions, will dispel once for all the old bugaboo that he is less efficient that the present professional help...
...some measure of protection to Empire produce, the lack of which had disastrously affected the automobile industry of Britain. It seems established by the huge Conservative vote in Lancashire, home of the cotton mills and Richard Cobden of free trade fame, that protection is not so much of a bugaboo as was Socialism; therefore, a trend to protective tariffs is more than probable...
...triumph is all the more gratifying because of its decisiveness. Luck or flukes were not a factor; the outcome was due to nothing but the superb consistency of Jones. Bringing his medal play psychology into match competition, he overcame an old bugaboo and disposed of a formidable group of distinguished players with comparative ease. So consistent was his performance that one of his opponents was able to carry him beyond the thirty-fourth green. Surely a well deserved victory and a popular one. The University is glad to number a crowned head among its graduates, and to wish a long...
...anticipated attack by Russia upon Rumania over the Bessarabian bugaboo (TIME, April 14) was fortified during the week by numerous rumors concerning Russian mobilization on the Bessarabian border. No clash took place, however, and none is likely to lake place, according to some reports. A deep-dyed irredentist propaganda onslaught against Rumania and all those countries who recognize the Rumanian annexation of Bessarabia was reported to have been begun...