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...last pre-Freshman year of a school student is haunted by the ominous specter of college entrance examinations. If his grades are poor, he is naturally worried; if his grades are high, he resents the necessity of having to prove his merits by supplying stereotyped information at a given date. The student whose plight may be classed in the second category requires a change in the present hide-bound restrictions...
...complaint ever having been received from the women regarding their wages." Of course, they have not complained and no one connected with labor problems expected them to. To complain usually means dismissal, and there is nothing a laboring man or woman fears so much as being fired. The specter of unemployment with rising bills and empty stomachs has made working people do far worse things than submit silently to an unjust wage. The University's giving this as an answer shows their utter failure even to understand the situation...
...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...