Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House, the dimly illuminated arch of Sever's doorway, the strange Gothic allure of Memorial Hall, the quadrangle at Commencement with the fine clear voice of President Lowell declaring, "By virtue of authority delegated to me, I confer on you the first degree in arts or in science, and admit you to the company of educated men." Accents unforgettable...
...judge from recent developments, it is probable that a concerted movement to abolish April hours will meet with little opposition. Instructors openly admit that only the necessity for returning a grade at April causes them to sanction this rude interruption of their programs. The liberal attitude of University Hall toward the matter is demonstrated by the decision last year to exempt Senior honors candidates at the discretion of course leaders. A slight push by the Student Council might well send the April hours into oblivion, and administer a suitable coup de grace to a bit of red tape outgrown with...
That economically and politically speaking, the world is very sick, even professors now admit; from every side come invocations of cure-alls and magic panaceas. Not the least bewildered by this year-long shower of ideological bonbons is the college man, who of all people should be attempting to view the situation with practical and theoretical clearness. To help him do this, New York University has begun a course of lectures, given once a week, on some topic of world economics, politics, or social problems...
When the Colonel was 14 he ran away from home and worked from ranch to ranch. By the time he was 21 he owned a ranch of 70,000 head of cattle and employing 90 men. "I admit you couldn't do a thing like that nowadays," he said, "even in the west; it takes more than brawn and snap judgment to start in business today, edication seems to be becoming necessary in all fields," he said in speaking of his ranching business...
...write adequately unless he interprets the American scene from the standpoint of the proletarian oppressed by a capitalist society. Throughout the book Mr. Hicks reasons from this premise, not toward it. That literature can have any other attributes which gives it a right to live he will not admit. Consequently Mark Twain, Henry James, Emily Dickinson, Willa Cather, Eugene O'Neill are, though grudgingly praised for artistry or insight, consigned to limbo for inadequacy...