Word: scapegoat
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That perennial scapegoat, the weather, comes in for much abuse; the spring was cold and summer was late. But novel factors have also arisen to make the summer innkeeper unhappy. Chief among these is the "auto camp." Guests no longer arrive bag and baggage via the railroad station, meat for the innkeeping Caesars. Instead they enter resorts under their own power, and proceed to the inexpensive hospitality of the "auto camp." Food they obtain from neighboring farmers, who in consequence are first to defend the camping motor tourist. Moreover, no one wants to stay put anywhere for even a week...
Rabbi Samuel F. Goldenson of Pittsburg will speak on "The Jew, the International Scapegoat" in Phillips Brooks House at 7.45 o'clock tonight. The lecture, which is under the auspices of the Menorah Society, is open to all members of the University...
...prevalence of "cribbing" and kindred forms of dishonesty among the students. An instructor said two weeks ago that this case had occurred at a very unfortunate time on that account. It was necessary, it seemed, that somebody should be made an example of, and Mr. S. became the scapegoat. He has been suspended. The faculty refused to consider anything except that one theme reproduced the other in part. Mr. S.'s explanation counted for nothing...