Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...race, as well as a base-ball and a foot-ball contest between the freshmen of the two colleges, is desirable. We are convinced, however, that when the question is looked at fairly, and even favorably, for a race with Yale, the objections are too weighty to admit of the contest. We therefore strongly urge the freshmen to decline the challenge...
Under "Topics of the Day," is given an account of the experience of "Brown, the moderate grind," in his attempts to write a sophomore theme. Many a sophomore will find his sympathies aroused for the struggling novice and will secretly admit that his own name might well be substituted in place of that of Brown. The article is admirable for its faithful description of a common experience in student life...
...Harvard is no worse than any of her sister colleges. On the contrary any unbiased observer will admit without hesitation that in no college in America are the students more gentlemanly than here. Nowhere do they preserve better order among themselves than here; nowhere are hazing and rowdy-like amusements frowned on as here, and nowhere is the "fast set" smaller in proportion. People who have lived in other college towns will admit that no where are the students on better terms with the inhabitants than here...
...complain. He has been most intimately associated with Harvard undergraduates for many years and surely knows whereof he speaks. His comments on the abstracting influence of outside work may seem to the undergraduates rather severe but at all events he is impartial in his severity. Every busy man will admit that his routine studies are sacrificed more or less to his societies, his papers or his athletics, but he will also claim that his outside work is of great value and his time is not wasted. Professor Briggs makes us laugh at our own follies but he would...
...Anglican bishops have recently proposed a union with the other evangelical churches, but they make the acception of episcopacy a condition of fellowship. Although many are willing to accept episcopacy as a means of diminshing sectarianism, yet it is too much to admit that it is an essential of Christianity...