Word: shibboleth
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...than on their qualifications, if any, as scholars and historians. Their main purpose has been to entertain, and since the general public is more interested in people that are human, perhaps even a bit naughty, this new school of semi-historical writers has led to the exposing of one shibboleth aften another, the rendering of innumerable veils, the puncturing of bubbles, and the over-turning of practically all the figures which tradition, sentiment, patriotism, and whatnot, had caused to be raised on pedestals...
...Tennyson, all Scop DeFoeman. Electra Dryden is the very Kittredge form of oathing upon the Tennis Court. The Double Standard Brann of Clothing is Washington down in the Poe, by Nausicaa. The Maid whose Tragedy emptor caveat a Single Tax on Trade. Plato McMasters Menckenese, out-Donne by Shibboleth, Buncombe, and a bad negro. Aeolus had a breath. Sober, steadfast, and demure is the non sans droit o Holmes, Galahad, and Holinshed, in of Holmes, Galahad, and Holinshed, in musty covered tomes. Hoi Polloi...
...trust which has been offered to her. We must accept it as a pledge of our good faith in world affairs; and that the principles embodied in President Wilson's "fourteen points", and in other altruistic protestations of our purposes in entering the war, may not become a mere shibboleth...
...Daily Princetonian has it that Harvard is yielding to the "shibboleth of commercialized undergraduate activities:" This is due to an unfortunate interpretation of a discussion held at a social service conference in Brooks House some time ago. There Mr. Philip Davis, director of the Civic Service House, Boston, suggested that social service work be credited toward a degree by the Faculty. The proposition was at once voted down by the undergraduates present, and there is no more likelihood of its being entertained here than that the work of managers will be recognized. Entirely aside from the point made...
...Commercialized undergraduate activities" is--evidently the shibboleth at Cambridge, if one may believe the newspaper stories issuing from that hallowed seat of learning. With the subsidence of the agitation for "credits toward a degree for managers of athletic teams," comes another still more startling--rolling onwards like a veritable billow of materialism to engulf the helpless philanthropist shivering on the brink. In short, "students are trying with good prospects of success to have the faculty recognize the philanthropic work done by students in and about Boston as credit toward the college degree. Several hundred men are engaged each year, under...