Word: confessed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Many of the rules laid down for the guidance of the undergraduates seem hard to understand at first, but if they are carefully considered, some good reason for their existence will usually be found. We must confess, however, that we are unable to discover any good foundation for the regulation in regard to advertising college dramatic productions. The managers of these plays are not allowed to advertise in the Boston papers, and can only bring their productions to the notice of the general public by placards which are restricted in size and color. Of course these offerings are primarily...
Looking at the matter from a Harvard point at view, we confess to a sincere hope that no such considerations will lead to change in our present coaching system. It must be admitted that the professional system has its disadvantages but so has the graduate, and we should oppose any changes that would lay us open to further adverse criticism for following a vacillating polley in our athletics. Last year Coach Pieper and Captain Dexter found no difficulty with conflict of responsibility. The system proved satisfactory: so let us stand...
...humiliating to have to confess that this sort of thing goes on constantly, though not, I am inclined to believe, as extensively as in some other libraries. The only force that can stop it is the force of public opinion and the determination on the part of the great body of students who are fair-minded gentlemen, that it shall not be winked at or even permitted among those whom they know...
...request and for a limited time. Unless the other books can be protected from depredation by the cultivation of an unmistakable and executive public opinion against a mean and selfish use of them, we may as well send the books all back to their places in the bookstack and confess that a reading room with open shelves is a failure...
...confess that our ideal is a committee which should have some authority for self-perpetuation. Until we secure one man who will direct the football policy indefinitely we shall be in the position of the country of fortnightly revolutions which is assailed by an established power. The committee with possibilities of permanence seems, however, to approximate the one man idea more nearly than an annual appointment by the captain...