theme-goblins

Updated: July 16, 2026

A thousand odds and ends of knowledge come crashing about my head like hailstones, and when I try to escape them, theme-goblins and college nixies of all sorts pursue me, until I wish oh, may I be forgiven the wicked wish! that I might smash the idols I came to worship. But the examinations are the chief bugbears of my college life.

Helen Keller - The Story of my life; with her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy