Word: incubus
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...antlike Manhattan broker finds his Russian wife's family a strangely charming incubus; upset and then educated by their grasshopper example, he discovers how much he loves his wife...
...before, "if a similar broad examination were to be given in every subject, the entrance system would be adjusted as nearly as possible to the methods of teaching at Harvard." Nevertheless the CRIMSON believes that all advance should not wait upon perfection. The preparatory schools, if freed from the incubus of the examinations, would be able to improve their teaching in accordance with modern developments...
...would advise the approximation of Harvard to the Cambridge model. It can improve on that. It has a tradition of thoroughness which is unknown in England outside the sciences. But why are Americans so anxious to organize things? External organization extends from one's first registration under an incubus of forms, through work, exams, even sport, until the Ph.D. is safely landed. Because spontaneity is rendered difficult I doubt the claim that the system at least assures to the second rate man an adequate education. But if the sincerity and thoroughness of Harvard can be allied with the faith that...
...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...