Word: bugbear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...education in this country has long been smoldering, and those who seek a more progressive policy will find an able spokesman in Dr. Mather Abbott, head-master of the Lawrenceville School, whose statements appear in another page of the CRIMSON. Dr. Abbott believes the two greatest difficulties are the "bugbear of college entrance requirements," and the failure of modern schools to realize that the "schoolboy of today is entirely a different being than the schoolboy of fifty years ago." He recommends the example of England in separating the intellectual sheep from the goats and paying especial attention to the scholars...
...educational system of American preparatory schools are advocated by Mather A. Abbott, formerly Professor of Latin and crew coach at Yale, and now Headmaster of Lawrenceville School, in an interview in the Yale News. He unreservedly condemns the present system and declares the schools "hidebound by tradition and the bugbear of the college entrance examinations...