Word: dreadful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...following quotation from the editorial column of the New York Evening Post is part of an article by President Fitch on "Religious Life at Harvard." "The first and universal characteristic of the Harvard undergraduate," he finds, "is a dread of seeming to appear better than he is." As a consequence, "he often appears worse than he is, lest you should think him to be what he is not. Prayer meetings repel him, and yet the daily morning service in Application Chapel is attended by one hundred of the fifteen hundred who could be expected to attend it. In what ordinary...