Word: bugaboos
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Dates: during 1922-1922
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...than merely supply courses and professors. We are inclined to agree; yet we do not in the least favor making the college a mass of restrictions and regulations. No. But somehow more than one student goes through college without being awakened as far as his intellectual self goes--that bugaboo word "intellectual" again!--but there is no avoiding it. Fundamentally it is all the old problem of contact; because true teaching is what is necessary, and teachers work only through making contact. The resulting sparks usually start something...
...with concern that we hear that Clark University is in a ferment because Mr. Scott Nearing's lecture was peremptorily stopped by President Atwood in the middle of its course. Mr. Nearing, previous to the interruption, had alleged that colleges are controlled by bugaboo of radicals, "vested interests", which hampers free speech. Toward the close of the lecture President Atwood entered the hall and shortly announced that the meeting was dismissed. When his announcement had no effect he had the lights turned out, thereby abruptly ending the lecture. Students and professors alike have strongly objected to the move...