Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week Dr. Lambert was obliged, and cheerfully so, to admit that he had erred two years ago. As head of the checking-up committee he had discerned that sly drug fiends had pretended cure to escape detention and get their dope in full freedom. But by prying, during the past few months, into their skulking solitudes, his committeemen found the narcosan-injected, drug-deprived addicts secretly twitching, gritting teeth, rolling eyes, gripping griped abdomens- all in the usual torments of deprivation. Narcosan did them no good. It was too bad, for curing a dope fiend by standard methods...
...this is true, how is it that a university first fashioned by high churchmen should admit this troublesome child within its august portals...
Whatever motive prompted the authorities to admit abnormal psychology into the fold, it was Dr. Morton Prince '75 who raised the necessary fund and insisted that such an enterprise should be a part of the Department of Psychology in a College rather than in a Medical School. It was Dr. Prince's notion that such a group devoted to a program of scientific research could evolve with more vigor if free from the urgent therapeutic necessities of a psychopathic hospital...
...fellow who teaches sloyd at the camp on the other side of the lake, and he said that the lines were so filled with--well, he named it right out--passion, that they fairly seethed. Seethed. Well (No, thanks awfully, I'm quite comfortable just here, this way), I admit I had sometimes thought of myself that...
...true that our State is hilly; we are PROUD of our HILLS! But that does not make those who farm the hills (it takes REAL farmers to farm hills!) 'hill-billies'. We admit our population contains some of the pioneer stock that descended from Boone and his contemporaries, people who are illiterate to a degree, but you must admit that the percentage of illiteracy you 'foot note' was made upon a census that included a large foreign population that work in our mines, brought in by capital, and NOT NATIVE WEST VIRGINIANS! And if you could...