Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Only 100 undergraduates have applied for tickets to the Holy Cross game, but as H. A. A. books will admit to this not so many are expected...
...admit publicly that I have no chance of being elected to the presidency. The American psychology seems to be to join the crowd and be successful, rather than undertake something which will not be immediately successful...
...statement in Governor Smith's entire speech." In Chicago, Governor Smith retorted: "If it is a Chinese puzzle to me with all my experience in diving into governmental figures running over a quarter of a century, what must it be to the fellow on the sidewalk? . . . I frankly admit it is a Chinese puzzle. I do not conceal it. And he [Secretary Mellon] knows...
...editorial in the CRIMSON yesterday entitled "Sounding Brass" you make vague and indefinite attacks on those doing what they can to remedy, or at last to palliate, the conditions in our slums. Far from giving any constructive criticism as to how this may be done, although you big-heartedly admit that the "Prevention of crime and delinquency..is the surest way of creating social stability" and that "the intelligent have shown a wordy, but not ineffective interest in these matters", you offer no adverse criticism except general mudslinging. Picking on a statement of one who is attempting to help...
Certainly Mr. Bartlett must admit that Lincoln was fit for the presidency. Would Lincoln be an ideal president for Harvard College? A president of a nation does not necessarily need to possess the qualities to be president of Harvard College . . . . . . . What a calamity if Coolidge were to step from the national presidency up to that of Harvard College! Mr. Bartlett feels sure he is eligible. I, then, could very easily conceive why forty professors would "fold their tents like Arabs and silently steal away". Peter J. White Bove...