Word: confessed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Someday, we hope, a Harvard man who has been inspired with the real enthusiasm which Harvard gives so many of us will write his confessions, or rather praises, to contrast them with the views of H. E. Stearns '13 who has confessed in the current Forum. Mr. Stearns finds that Harvard "fails to stimulate the majority of its students to take advantage of its opportunities, that "it furnishes a totally inadequate intellectual discipline, and instead of teaching a man good habits of work and steady concentration, it encourages lazy and vicious habits." He finds that he "has known more...
Detective Burns is probably best known for his phenomenal work in tracking the McNamara brothers and forcing them to confess. As a detective, Mr. Burns should no doubt be placed at the head of the list, in America at least. Being a man who knows his work so thoroughly, and who knows social conditions so well, his lecture should be very interesting...
Detective Burns is probably best known for his phenomenal work in tracking the McNamara brothers and forcing them to confess. As a detective, Mr. Burns should no doubt be placed at the head of the list, in America at least. Being a man who knows his work so thoroughly and who knows social conditions so well, his lecture should be very interesting...
...work, and the prosecution was begun. The task was particularly difficult, as not only the leading attorneys, but all the detective agencies had been bribed by the gambling interests. After several months investigation, however, enough evidence had been collected to force Boss Ruef, Mayor Schmitz, and others to confess. Nevertheless, in spite of their confession, the men were acquitted by the Supreme Court of the State. The courts in California are open to criticism on the score of integrity and it is often the case that wherever there is political corruption, business corruption is sure to be behind...
...outset we must confess that the situation of Mr. Hagedorn's play does not strike us as well conceived for so short a drama. Two men and a woman, wrecked on a remote island, are, indeed, likely before long to realize that two is company; but it takes time to throw off the influence of convention and to see such a situation in its primitive nakedness. What happens in "The World too Small for Three" is plausible enough, if time were given to the characters to arrive at the conclusions on which they act, and to the audience to realize...