Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...feeling of exasperation when one of these untutored minds propounds a view of life, or gives an estimate of character, without recognizing in any way the verdict of New England cultivation. Yet, although his lack of deference to authority is certainly due, in part, to ignorance, we must nevertheless admit the value of his new standards of criticism. He may have too little respect for the pleasures of the mind and too much for the pleasures of the body; too little aptitude for the amenities of life, and too much for its sensualities; but he has in any case, along...
...chorus of fifteen would never sound well in the theatre of the Harvard Didascaleium, and in general that we must not make the play ridiculous by intruding the obsolete. But those who have had the good fortune to be present at the performance of Tuesday or Thursday must admit that if the echoes from Sanders made Sophocles turn in his grave, it was with a sigh of relief that his immortal production had been at last freed from the conventionalities and restrictions of a Greek festival, and rendered with its full dignity, grace, and power. We went...
...STRONG demand in favor of co-education has thrown open the doors of many of our universities and colleges to women, and the college press, thinking it a poor rule which will not work both ways, is insisting that Vassar admit men. Hear! Hear! - Chronicle...
...much-looked-for University Bulletin has at last come out. If it is true that the Register suspends publication because it thinks itself superseded by the Bulletin, then we must admit that the Bulletin is a decided improvement upon Mr. King's publication. It leaves nothing to be desired. To its old features, which interested only specialists, it adds new matters that interest all members of the University alike. Particularly welcome are the Votes of the Corporation and the Overseers, and the abstracts of the labors of Harvard scientists. We cordially welcome this new addition to our University literature...
Both Captain Collins and Mr. Bigelow agreed that the quarters occupied by Harvard last year were such as they would be unwilling to use themselves. They were also willing to admit that there was nothing unfair in the position taken by Harvard, in being unwilling to go to New London unless good quarters could be obtained...