Word: bugbear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mark S. Granovetter, assistant professor of Sociology and head tutor in the department, predicts that tutors' statements about students are "going to be pretty bland." The ultimate bugbear here, head tutors say, is the student with "emotional problems," whose tutor will avoid aggravating the condition by not reporting it to the next tutor. That tutor, the story goes, then needs a semester just to find out what his predessor could have passed on in one confidential memo...