Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four copies of TIME received since I enrolled as a reader. I like the whole paper and read it from cover to cover. One of the amusing pages is the LETTERS. Frontal attack, rude and discourteous, many letters seem even when accusing you of the same offenses. I fear some readers have a carping eye and are what I term piddling readers-they miss the flavor of the meat because they object to the pattern of the dish. More power to ye, Mr. Editor...
...example, to be asked, as I was soon after my election, whether I expected to appoint any men to office? This question, telegraphed to me from the East by a well-known metropolitan newspaper, had every indication of being quite sincere, and was apparently inspired by the fear that the elevation of women to executive office was likely to be followed by the dismissal of all men and the substitution of women in their places...
...present time there is no reason to fear that the lecture system will be abolished at Harvard. It has proved too well its right to exist. The conjunction of lectures and tutorial methods confers benefits which can be secured by neither alone and reconciles most of the conflicts which spring from the dual necessities of educating large numbers and of providing at the same time for the needs of the individual student...
...general, the college sport authorities look upon the "box-office" game as a danger to intercollegiate football. Those who have sought most ardently to rid the college game of "ringers" are now aroused to fear by the present efforts to put the game on a commercial basis. They fear that professional will replace the amateur, and that academic football will, as a result deteriorate...
Little Hans was not a manly lad; he had, for instance, a terrible fear of the great geese that were driven in flocks through the streets of Odense, marching with a military step, their eyes glistening like buttons, and their red bills pointing forward in a row. When he beheld them he would run and hide behind the black pig, which was his friend...