Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comfort. Pity the future dweller in the waste lands beyond the freshman dormitories who must spend his college years in old D Hall. Of course that will not be like living in E, or even D. But it will be bad enough. The officers of the school should certainly admit their literary limitations and offer a prize for names. Luchre, Mammon, Rimmon, all of these are excellent. Or one could use the names of great captains of industry, Ford, Pinkham, Swift. Indeed there are all manner of delightfully apt names to adorn letter heads with. But A, B, C--really...
...faculty existence could be negatived by the vote of those who would not brook certain faculty legislation is a part of medieval, not modern history. Yet the day of rapport between undergraduate and faculty is apparently more a part of modern history than many perennial pessimists would care to admit...
...with the wariness of a Central Square duenna and the nonchalance of two Central Square duennas. I sat for hours and watched him. One does things like that on spring vacations. And then there is now the subtle excuse of being a behaviorist. All of which I must admit I am not, believing sincerely that most behaviorism is at best perfunctory...
...what happened: The General was called back again before the committee to amplify certain complicated figures which he had previously presented. All went well with him until Senator Reed, mighty Missourian, began to quiz him in tones now jocular, now earnest. The Senator tried to get him to admit that some of the "light wine and beer bills" would, if passed, solve the enforcement question. The General refused to make any such admission. Then the Senator got to putting hypothetical questions, hedged about with hypothetical qualifications. Finally the Senator produced this Homeric question...
Both are equally irritating, but I dislike to admit that TIME has lowered itself to the stereotyped phraseology of a small town daily newspaper...