Word: specter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best of all answers to the specter of "over-emphasis on athletics" which haunts our American colleges, is the continuance of such work as the Dramatic Club has well begun at the University...
...faculty, must do their utmost to keep in touch with the men. Only in this way can the number of misfits, always too numerous, be lessens Only by combining the small group and the wider field can be the ideal of college be difined and the ever present specter of limitation laid...
Everybody knows the recurring bad dream in which he is straining every muscle to cross a railroad track ahead of an oncoming locomotive and cannot quite make it. Usually he wakes up shuddering just before the train hits. Very much the same situation confronts the Senior now, with the specter of Divisionals looming up closer and closer before him,-only without the saving grace of waking up and finding it all a dream. Preparation to meet the Divisionals is as hopelessly futile for the average Senior as attempts to get away from the engine in the nightmare. For all that...