Word: encroachment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although it is inconceivable that any sedate Harvard instructor would ever consciously encroach upon his neighbor's ground, there need be no alarm at the possibility. Competition may be as essential to the welfare of academic life as it is in the business world; at any rate, students will unfailingly elect courses that present the facts in the most inviting and digestible form. If all instructors are obliged to vie one with another in catering to popular demand, college faculties might be stimulated to produce some particularly palatable food for thought...
...must elect more than two courses it will be necessary to encroach either up on your breakfast hour with a ten o'clock, or your luncheon hour through a twelve or destroy your siesta with a 1.30. Such are the horrors of our modern civilization. Alas that the days are past when only three courses were given. Cocoanut Chasing 6bs, Day Dreaming 73; and Sleeping...