Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...extension of the system of specialization and differentiation in studies into the years of boyhood and earliest youth, as mere unthinking conservatism. President Eliot speaks, of course, with the highest authority; and yet the logical outcome of his views cannot but excite alarm. It is not easy to admit that the favorite modern principle of the division of labor can wisely be carried to this extent in the intellectual world as it is now being carried in the physical world. The fundamental principle on which the great republic of letters is founded, the very idea of the "humanities...
...Whereas, We do not admit that the employment of professionals is necessarily an evil, and whereas we consider the regulations fatal to inter-collegiate athletics and to the best interests of athletics in general...
...Whereas, We do not admit that evils have crept into athletics through the employment of professionals...
...Chapman, '83, thought it to be the general opinion that the faculty is not in the wrong in trying to stem the tide of professionalism in the college; but its present action is inconsistent and impracticable. Most will admit the possibility of an excess of professionalism, Mr. Sexton thought; professionalism and the employment of professionals were different things, however. The one was an evil; the other was not necessarily...
...favor of such rules, both in an out of college, is probably so large, that any reasonable measures proposed by the college authorities, with the view of abolishing professionalism, would meet with but little opposition among the students. In view of this, although we are not prepared to admit the expediency of this rule, we waive all objection to it for the present, and will willingly unite with the Faculty in giving it a fair trial. We do not believe it wise, however, to endanger this fair trial of an experiment, in which we are all interested, by loading...