Word: bugaboos
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Last week Professor Luccock, retiring from Yale at the end of the term, gave a series of lectures at the divinity school's annual convocation about an old bugaboo of his-comfortable preaching. Said...
...common cold, however, is still the bugaboo. It is twice as prevalent as any other disease, and even the men at Hygiene don't know what to do about...
Lack of aggressiveness, the varsity soccer team's old bugaboo, caught up with Bruce Munro's booters again this weekend, and they dropped their fifth game of the year to an inferior Princeton outfit, 2 to 1, at Princeton. The Crimson travels to Storrs tomorrow to take on the University of Connecticut...
...pamphlet briskly urges the candidate, in picking a theme for his initial speech, to choose one "in which you believe." The worst bugaboo of all is competition: "No law compels people to listen to you. You must interest them. If you don't, a flick of the dial will bring them drama, news, comedians, music or"-the saddest fate of all-"another speaker...
...CRIMSON editor, in response to this letter, began to take tutoring under Cramer along with hundreds of other Harvard students. His cancelled check was sufficient proof, and on January 15, 1948, the CRIMSON announced: "After taking an 8-year knockout count, Harvard's biggest bugaboo in recent years, the professional tutoring school, has begun its climb from the canvas...