Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...series of compulsory general courses given in the opening, years of college whose purpose should be primarily to arouse and stimulate intellectual curiosity in the student. At the end of the Sophomore year general examinations should cover the field of these courses, and success in these should admit the student to the higher courses, where in the last two college years there should be specialization, and greater academic freedom. A modified tutorial system would provide the best means of effecting this condition of affairs, he said...
...such a division were practical the proposal would be excellent. But the task of separating the studious sheap from the frivolous goals is no small one. No one cares to admit, except possibly to his intimates, that his presence in college is but a conventional period of growth: such, a condition might very well be-true but few will boast of it Whether or not Dr. Park is over-emphasizing a contemporary disease, it is difficult to say. Certainly, in spite of their flippancy, his remarks cut deep, emanating as they do from a man vitally connected with modern education...
...found necessary at the electoral meeting of the Harvard chapter to alter the by-laws in order to admit an extra man from the exceptionally large number of eligible Seniors...
...cathedral town of Polchester (by the river, by the sea) in her old, old house in Canon's Yard, sat Mrs. Penethen, respected, kindly widow. She sat by her kitchen fire, her skirt drawn up to her knees, her toes resting on a woolworked cushion. She was to admit to her home that night, against her will and yet somehow with all her heart, a vast foreigner: a simple Swede, a blond HerculesApollo, whose strangely formal card contained the words: Hjalmar Johanson, Gymnastic Instructor. The storm passed in the night. But only with convulsive effort and in the space...
This statement, however natural it may sound to us, is somewhat disingenuous. In the first place, the independence sentiment has been artificially stimulated by the Filipino politicians for their own selfish ends. In the second place, nearly every one of the leaders who have advocated it in public admit that in private that they do not believe the time has yet come for the Americans to withdraw completely from the Islands. Their secret ideal is for complete independence under the protecting arm of the United States, with the right to call on us for unlimited funds to experiment with government...