Word: confesses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Still, I must confess that I was shocked at the president's complaint of the security of the present board of overseers, and still more shocked that, in a torchlight procession during the late unpleasantness, Harvard students bore a transparency inscribed, "Average age of Overseers, 95 in the Shade." Now, this is absurd, as absurd as the assertion in one of your journals that your Mr. Evarts "was too old for a senator," and that he "was too old to change his mind." Why, your new senator is Billy Evarts, Evarts, who used to reel off Adams's Latin Grammar...
...seriousness we confess that the pie is preferable to the stew, but the question arises in our minds if something else would not be equally preferable to the pie. It is true that the "something else" will cost more. Very well, let it cost more. The hall does not pretend to furnish board less than about $4.50 per week, (vide p. 133 of catalogue), yet for the last month the board was only $3.7 per week. The Board of Directors are certainly to be congratulated in their success in running the hall at such a small cost, but is there...
...terms cope with an examination designed to test their knowledge. Such men may, and may not, be right in their theory of examinations; but for ourselves we feel at liberty to differ with them inasmuch as we possess the required humility-and it does not take very much-to confess ourselves more ignorant than knowing; and, as long as we are so, we believe that we are better able to be, and more fairly would be, examined in our knowledge than in our ignorance. We, therefore, would have the purpose of examinations, for the present at least, to test...
...have recently been examining some of the bills that I paid during my freshman year. Here is one of them, which I confess I thought rather large, but which I paid, being a freshman and thinking it all right, always having heard a good deal of talk about Cambridge high prices...
...writer, having established his point, goes on with pardonable pride and recounts at great length the eminent men connected with the august assembly to which he himself belongs. This will undoubtedly be very interesting reading for our subscribers, but we confess that we fail to see exactly what bearing this list of notables has upon the subject under discussion. We do not think the facts affect the position of the CRIMSON. We attempted to show that to exclude Negroes, simply because they were Negroes, was manifestly unfair, and could not react with good effect upon Harvard, and this point...