Word: bugbear
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...overemphasis bugbear, the first article of the old cases against larger stadia, is laid, once and for all, at Harvard. It has been smothered, not by acts and regulations, but by the normal course of University development. Harvard men, with fresh stimuli ever calling, have shown that they can take their football or leave it alone. It is not unreasonable to suppose that when the question arises again, as it will inside of a decade, a larger stadium will be built at Harvard...
...have partially failed in their first year at Harvard and the obvious discrepancies of standards in secondary schools are sufficient recommendation for them. There will be little weeping over the final passing of the September examinations, which difficult of administration and unsatisfactory results had made a bugbear to examiners and candidates...
...greater importance to the general undergraduate body is the unmistakable stand taken by the Advocate in offering its columns for the publication of such a work as "The Rally." Thrusting aside the time honored bugbear of "poor taste", and daring the fury of wounded sensibilities the Advocate has staunchly committed itself to the task of voicing whatever legitimate criticism of Harvard life may be brought to the attention of its editors...
...competing for athletic management. The "recreation and leisure" section included exercise and sports such as golf and tennis, reading, not in preparation for classroom work, lectures and concerts, theatres and movies, card-playing, "parties", in the pre-Volstead sense, dances and social activities, informal discussions and that bugbear of the weeks before Tap Day, the "dope session," at which the undergraduate solemly argues Bill Jones's chance to be tapped last man for Skull and Bones, or whether Wolf's Head or Elihu Club will provide a haven for Jim Smith...
...these courses than the one proposed! Those for whom organized religion has not broken down and those who desire to readjust themselves should not be corralled into a required course. Because of their disinterested presence, such a course must necessarily lack spontaneity, must become, for many at least, a bugbear. Around that course, designed to enable "the student to work out a rational view of life", there will grow rank vegetation: tutoring schools will offer to sell "a rational view of life and raise your grade a letter--or your money back." At section meetings, the unwilling will be hand...