Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...only sinners can enter Hades, the Arcadians, none of whom have ever committed a sin, are debarred from companying the bridal party on the journey. Then it is suggested that, as stealing is a crime, each man should steal a kiss from each maid. This, Pluto points out, would admit the men to Hades, but the maids would still be debarred. Ceres overcomes the difficulty by suggesting that the maids take back their kisses, thereby receiving stolen goods, which of course is a sin. Exemplicus is now the only person left on earth; he declares that he will revenge himself...
...offensive notoriety from which the press allows no football player to escape. Gentlemanly games are reduced to the same level as professional exhibitions and the tone of collegiate contests is inevitably lowered, by the sensational importance which attaches to them in the papers. For this, it must be admitted, there is some excuse. When college men admit to their sports any one who will pay for the entertainment, and carry this practice into cities where there is no college, they really take upon themselves the function of professionals; and the papers can not be greatly blamed if they call much...
...White, the head master of Berkeley School, is planning several changes in the cinder-track at Berkely Oval, where the intercollegiate championships were held last year. The straight-away will be widened by about 6 feet and the corners will be well banked. This will admit of at least two more contestants running at once in the dashes and should result in cutting down the time in the bicycle race considerably...
...examinations are removed from our immediate circle of vision, we can look at the question of their abolition from a standpoint that is fairly unprejudiced. On one point in the abolishment that seems bound to come in time, I should like to have information. The outside world, which admittedly knows a little about the subject, has severely frowned on the present system. The "student body" has almost unhesitatingly declared against the long examinations held twice a year. The opinion of the Faculty shows an emphatic tendency towards doing away with mid-years and finals. Our professors are constantly heaping blame...
...other hand, while claiming to endorse President Eliot's attitude, seems really to have little in common with it. Through all of the excited utterances on football of which the the Nation has delivered itself of late, there has been a wilful disregard of facts, an unwillingness to admit anything good of the opposite side, that entirely shuts it out from any claim upon intelligent attention. Such phrases as "brute instincts which they have been sedulously cultivating," "animal gratifications," and the like, indicate an attitude of mind the opposite of candid or dignified. It may be that we are taking...