Word: specters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confused with the famed propaganda despatch of the A. P. on Nov. 17, which said: "The specter of a Mexican-fostered Bolshevist hegemony intervening between the United States and the Panama Canal has thrust itself into American-Mexican relations, already strained...
President Lowell, in his last report, attributed the relative inferiority of American universities to the difficulty of having to cope with the mental immaturity of incoming freshmen. For this condition, the secondary schools are chiefly responsible. Faced by the specter of the College Entrance Board examinations, they are inclined to make success in them the standard of achievement. The successful high or preparatory school teacher is the one who can bring the largest percentage of his pupils safely by the examiners' perils. And since surmounting these is within the reach of almost all, secondary instruction jogs along in peaceful mediocrity...
There must be something behind it all, else the alumni would not have been able to keep the ball rolling at such a number of revolutions per minute for two months. Even though no one has referred to it by name yet, the moth-eaten specter of Harvard indifference may have begun again to walk abroad and clank its chain. It is not the first time that even a suspicion that the worthy spook is about again has set people by the cars...
This is all highly gratifying. We had feared out this way that the eastern fountains of learning were drying up. We had harbored the suspicion that youth in the east was, if not dead, at least pale and specter-thin. We saw decadence where once had been virility. We remembered recent intersectional games and we thought that down east they had too much blue blood and not enough...
...worry? At least that's the way juniors, sophomores, and freshmen think seniors ought to feel, for with them matters are quite otherwise. With these unfortunates what's done is not done. And worse still, the ghost of what's undone rattles its bones and joins forces with the specter of what's yet to do. It Robert Browning had been the true optimist and friend of mankind he is reputed to be, he would have written...