Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...orders. Many persons think that different styles are different orders, while in reality the orders are only various expressions of the same style. There are only three distinct orders,- the Doric, the Ionic, and the Corinthian. All others are variations of these. The variations are endless in number and admit of as great changes as any one can desire. The restrictions are not in any sense bonds, but have really done more to bring about variety of design than to limit...
...that this spirit has shown its efficiency is in bringing us freedom. Not very long ago when scholars realized that they were in the wrong they were afraid to admit it for fear of losing their influence. Even the universities were often afraid of new learning and the discoveries of science, because, if these became generally known they might lose the respect of the people. Governments were afraid to have people know their rights because if they had known them the ruling powers might have been overturned. But now the great endeavor of all men is that every one should...
...mercy and love and truth. Occasional anachronisms and inaccuracies in the text cannot by any imaginable possibility affect the spiritual integrity of the Bible. But, the question comes again, can we be sure of the authenticity of the story of the resurrection, if we are obliged to admit that some historical errors have been made? To this, then, is an answer: We owe much to the faithful scholarship that has investigated the resurrection, and placed the integrity of that great event beyond dispute...
...winter of '90-'91 the charter of "Alpha" chaper of the D. K. E. was revoked, and since then no representative organization of the D. K. E. fraternity has existed at Harvard. This was done chiefly because members of the fraternity here did not wish to admit members of the fraternity from elsewhere, simply because they belonged to another chapter. This of course was doing away with the main characteristic of the fraternity, namely, the promotion of the feeling of mutual confidence and good fellowship among all members of the fraternity wherever found...
...hearty approval of members of the University; though co-education in the popular sense of the word will not exist here, under the new arrangement the higher education of young women will be brought much nearer to that of young men and given the place that fairmindedness must admit that it deserves...