Word: bugbear
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Appleton Chapel is a rather dingy and sepulchral place, contrasting poorly with Yale's cheerful and richly sculptured Battell Chapel. It is known to everybody that from time immemorial students of every college have looked upon daily perfunctory prayers as the bugbear of their lives. To stand over a young man with a policeman's club and compel him to worship, hardly conduces either to the glory of God or to the student's religious edification. Coercion at Harvard especially is something anomalous and discordant...
...held in the evening, instead of in the morning, as at present. The change seems to us a most desirable one, especially if the time assigned were immediately before or after dinner. If this were done, attendance at chapel would be no longer regarded as a bugbear; on the contrary, it would become a real pleasure...
...freshman nine it is an absolute necessity for the good of the college that the freshman games should be abolished. As matters are at present it makes no difference how many victories the University wins over Yale, this Yale freshman series always appears before us as a bugbear. The few games that have been played by the freshmen this year do not promise as much us we had hoped. There is undoubtedly excellent material in the nine, but they do not play well together. They ought to be under the control of some University player, who could give them points...