Word: slough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those insectivorous swarms that surround are lights, Lamps, and other sources of artificial light. By some, it is supposed to be a humerous tendency of a dying race. By others, it is heralded as the first delicate development of actual thought in individuals long-buried in the slough of wit. By this last definition, it is a freak to the encouraged. Students of Harvard, we have here an unsurpassed opportunity ot practise that Christmas spirit; to herald this hybrid bug as a true struggler toward the light of more serious endeavor! KEITH MACKAYR...
...plethora of clubs for discussion; when these exist they are mainly social in their nature. There is not the stimulus to originality which a good man can get at Oxford or Cambridge. On the other hand, there is more equality of treatment; the passman does not fall into the slough of ignorant content which the English universities offer him. In the result the average man fares better than he does in England, while the progress of the man of genuine capacity is sacrificed to this doubtful relic of Jeffersonianism...