Word: incubus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college today would work improvements it would best begin by agitating energetically for a reliable, thorough and uniform system of kindergarten, primary, and secondary schools, which can be trusted to train boys for scholarship. Until such changes are made every college, Harvard included, will stifle under the incubus of elementary or survey courses, the English 28's, and History 1's, and German. A's, which only make up the deficiencies of preparation. As long as these courses must exist it is neither necessary to substantiate the statement that the American preparatory schools are the worst in the western world...
...While the gloomy interior of the place has made it an excellent site for the decay to which students are given, and while some of the more decadent may mourn its passing for that reason, none in his right mind will weep at the bier of the lecherous old incubus. A malignant growth, it has been dislodged only by repeated complaints of various natures, and by the manifesto of the Commissioner of Public Safety; the slowness of its demise has not been the least reprehensible of its characteristics...
...from mechanical examinations on fact. The average student, through not exempt from the preliminary examinations, will in the final oral quiz have to show the same intelligent grasp of first principles. Both the superior and the average student will profit by the removal from graduate work of the incubus of men of sub-normal intelligence. The changes will make the degree of Ph.D. in Sociology mean intelligence rather than mere encyclopaedic knowledge and will enable the department to test much better that intelligence...
...generation after the Civil War the Grand Army of the Republic was an incubus on national politics. It waved the "bloody shirt" from every crossroads stump. It packed Congress with its mem bers. It put Generals Grant, Hayes, Garfield and Harrison into the White House. It dictated legislation on pensions until the public cried loudly out in protest. Only with the coming of the 20th Century did Death down the G. A. R. as a political influence...
...Conference failed, wheat men were conscious that the world's wheat elevators are bulging with last year's surplus and that out of the earth was already springing another monster crop, another incubus. Too discouraged to tear their hair, Chicago wheat pit traders estimated quietly last week that North America will close 1931 with a surplus of one billion bushels-beyond all comparison the all-time record...