Word: bugbear
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...obligations in trying to make the present machinery of the University work successfully. He cannot in justice deny that the responsibility of whether that machinery has worked well or ill rests largely with the attitude he has taken. Take the case of concentration and distribution, which is such a bugbear at present. How many have given serious study and thought to the subject, for say fifteen minutes at a time? Or how many who have disliked to exercise their minds to that extent have talked to their Faculty Adviser upon the subject? Its very purpose would indicate that...
...College Office announces today that the special mid-year examinations will be held from December 18 to December 24, inclusive. The new military figures may return to their respective homes to take a much-needed rest before entering the third camp, and during that period of vacation no bugbear of tests to come will hang over them. The traditional antipathy of undergraduates toward the Office will certainly be effaced--temporarily, if not permanently. Benevolent rulers are now enthroned in University Hall, who minister to the needs of their subjects. The greatest of all needs was the force to push that...