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Many of these difficulties could be obviated if the student were required to hand in a thesis reading period subject before he takes the examination. The student then would in all probability devote more time to an intelligent correlation of the reading he has done; without the examination bugbear, he would be less concerned with demonstrating by more outline that he has perfunctorily read the assigned books and he would be more inclined to show his originality. The final examination could then have more time adequately to test his understanding of the remainder of the course...
...Henry A. Diez, Vienna newspaper correspondent, investigating the cases of ''158 persons who can prove they are more than 100 years old," reported that illiteracy-U. S. bugbear-seemed quite as effective as curds in keeping Bulgars alive...
...almost be called natural. Or, perhaps, Harvard has not so much ruled out the yeast as to remove all those leavening distractions which to some degree save the student from the set and sterile point of view of its academic side, its ever-encroaching zeal for "scholarship", and the bugbear of the graduate schools. Our critics are wont to accuse us of being unbalanced if not actually drunk, however...
...shadowy connection with the Communist organizations of Russia that alarms the average American, and he sees in the Marion and Gastonia riots a threat of the violence that may spread to every section of our industrial life. The very thought of red Russian influence in American industry is a bugbear to the normal business...
...difficult to end. But the first step has been taken, and the inevitable funeral may well be held somewhere in Boston as inconspicuously as possible. It is only to be regretted that the Class of 1930 has apparently lost the distinction of emancipating itself entirely from this historical bugbear...