Word: irks
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...study as a type of pure freak, which occurs like the seven-year locust, at regular intervals. History reports it appeared before as a hybrid insect, related to the late frivolous sheet, "The Harvard Magazine", or the "Mag". There are other instances with which it is needless to irk the student (or if there are not, the art of pseudology is at fault...
...case of the man who offers advanced Latin for admission, the rule is that no matter if he has previously passed prose composition along with translation of prose authors, he must take this test again in his final examination together with his poetry. Thus he must carry on the irk-some study of composition for a full year longer than any other college requires. That this is an unpopular regulation is shown by the large number of Harvard candidates who omit Latin poetry during their last school year, thereby avoiding the final Latin examination...