Word: confession
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...confess I'm stunned...
Several years ago, our malignant contemporary, the Corinth Daily Herald, indulged in considerable cheap wit at the expense of the great and good Socrates. We will admit that as a base-ball player his career was hardly successful; but even his bitterest enemies must confess that nature certainly intended him for a clown, and we defy Corinth or any other Peloponnesian village to produce his equal in that capacity...
...view, we confess, American college life seems a hot-house, producing, not gentlemen, but artistes. The majority of men coming to college from elsewhere than the social world of the great cities are pure bourgeois. They have the big virtues and the little, - regard for the truth and virtuous recoil from ponying. They have read nothing but the Requirements for Admission and high-toned books, and scorn all literature but such as "fits them for the work of life." Cards are not only a waste of time, but evil in themselves; and the theatre an abomination...
...mind racing Yale; but confess, with sorrow, that our crew is not heavy enough to row against the Agawam ferry-boat...
ALTHOUGH our College has so decisively declared itself against engaging in an intercollegiate literary contest, such as is proposed for the coming summer, we confess to having many lingering regrets for the somewhat inconsiderate determination at which we so hastily arrived. We think that these are shared by quite a large number of our fellow-students, who are curious to see how our men would stand in comparison with those of other colleges, and to find out whether we are really much worse off for our lack of collegiate instruction in writing and speaking, which we have so often been...