Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...memory of the eight lengths of open water will preclude a repetition of the error." The Elis realize the mistake of overconfidence which was so disastrous last year and are determined that it shall not be made again. On the other hand it is only fair to admit that there is not as much reason for overconfidence this year. Captain S. Y. Hord at 4, G. E. Ellis at 7 and R. Carson as coxswain are the only veterans of the eight which rowed at New London last spring, while there are only a few men of first-class second...
...disregards this advice, realization must come sooner or later that he is a quitter. He entered college for the fundamental purpose of getting a degree. If he leaves now the fact that he lay down on the job will follow him through life. He will be forced to admit that he left college--not because he lacked brains but because he didn't, have the "stick-to-it-iveness" to finish what he began...
...than by perfectly clear thinking. What keeps it from being more impressive is its essential irrelevance. The champions of the idea are palpably sincere, not to say solemn: their intentions are the best in the world, but their psychology is loss to be commended. They do not, that is, admit into their thinking the one fact which is most germane to the subject--namely, that scholarship is in its very nature a pursuit which is not fostered to any appreciable extent by overt "recognition", that it can thrive lustily even though accompanied by something less than a fanfare of trumphets...
...students are required to attend the first meetings of all their courses after mid-years. Any instructor may refuse to admit an undergraduate to his course if he is absent from the first meeting. Attendance at the meeting does not serve as official enrollment in the course; students must include the courses in their list of studies. No course may be changed except through the granting of a petition to the Committee on the Choice of Electives...
...houses, seeing what was happening, attempted to hold him in restraint by passing the resolution for-bidding recruiting. The President, faithful to the last, supported his theory and his Secretary by his veto. If the Administration cannot go out "in a blaze of glory," at least will never admit its mistakes. The House, however, has repassed the resolution; it should also be repassed by the Senate...