Word: confesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Without detracting from Harvard's improvement it is only fair to confess that the Worcester Engineers failed to match their Hemenway performance. Parsons, stellar guard, was missing from the line-up and the two men tried to fill his shoes were ineffective. Sharpe showed flashes of sensational play, but Rudofsky did not give him a moment's peace all the evening...
...probably the only latter-day poet that can catch their authentic note. And the songs incorporated in the play show that he has not forgotten how to write lyrics as they should be written. It is a good play, almost a great play. And yet (shamefacedly I confess it) I prefer his earlier, and therefore presumably less mature work. For there is no one can write as he can of the sea, and of them that go down, to the sea in ships...
...Pedro. But Pedro before he died swore that he would come back to haunt his brother, would come back while the Habanera sounded. He did. The ghost, strumming a guitar, appeared to the murderer, while three blind musicians played the Habanera. And the wraith told Ramon that unless he confessed his crime, he, the spectre, would return and claim the living bride. Ramon could not bring himself to confess, and so while he and the young woman knelt over the grave of Pedro, she, not knowing of the crime, to pray for the dead man, and he, pretending to, unseen...
Maybe a natural dullness has prevented me from becoming acquainted with all the Harvard customs--yet I must confess my observation of a new one the other day, The seating charts of one of the Law School Professors not only contain the seat numbers and names of the respective occupants, but, in addition, over each name is inserted the grade gained last year by each student. No doubt I have carelessly invaded the privacy of academic secrecy. But, tell me, is that one of your regular customs here at Harvard? Would a poll of the faculty assist any in reaching...
...recall a single year which could be called normal, in the sense that production and consumption exactly balanced. "We are now," he concluded, "in the midst of a crisis in the industry, and I have no desire to minimize the serious aspects of the situation, but I must confess that if the petroleum industry ever ceased to be abnormal I think I should find it very dull indeed...