Word: frictional
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When Professor Koffka was asked, in reference to the recent friction between the undergraduate body and the University authorities, if German universities had the same troubles, he replied...
...nothing is more likely to lead this country into friction and into war with other powers than to allow them to think that we do not mean what we say. That is not aggression, that is not pugnacity; it is a business arrangement so that everybody may know that when we say a thing we mean...
...Workshop altogether. Said the Crimson, bitterly : "The President and the Board of Overseers, with their shameful neglect, are accountable." Said President Lowell, laconic, sad at heart: "The gift to Yale of $1,000,000 supplies an endowment that does not exist elsewhere." Said Prof. Baker: "There has not been friction." Harvard men pondered the cause behind their loss. In the past, Prof. Baker had sought, and been refused, an experimental theatre and other adjuncts of expansion. Had it really been lack of funds that underlay this refusal? Or lack of belief in dramatics as a valid department in undergraduate instruction...
...nation's sentiments than it would be fair to judge a university by the actions of certain bodies of its undergraduates after a football victory. Even in this country, where we are all, supposedly, one people, it would be impossible to draw a thousand athletes together for competitions without friction of some sort. Is it sensible, then, to expect perfect harmony among the athletes of many nations, all strung up to the tautest pitch of excitement? And is it sensible to regard any personal reaction to that excitement as the expression of the offending athlete's country...
Possibly one of the greatest causes of friction between the Holy See and the Italian Government has been removed...