Word: phantasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shows". No doubt he reaches a true appreciation of some Harvard men, or even of a certain class of them; but he is not justified upon such evidence in proceeding to a wholesale indictment, or in leaving the impression that his charge applies to that abstract, composite, and illusive phantasm--the Harvard...
...grip in which high schools and colleges have been held by the phantasm of athletic supremacy for the last forty or fifty years is significant of little more than the extremes to which new ideas can be driven. Prior to about 1860 sports were not generally indulged in for the greater glory of Alma Mater. When the value of organized athletics was recognized, however, and the advantages of the element of extramural competition became apparent, the grotesque shapes to which the theory of mons sana in il pore sano was twisted by short sighted enthusiasts seemed to indicate on unreasoning...