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Word: bugbears (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Home Life | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RUSSIAN INFLUENCE | 10/8/1929 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DYING GLADIATOR | 1/31/1929 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STADIUM AGAIN | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DAMAGING ADMISSIONS | 12/20/1928 | See Source »

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