Word: confession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...happiness the end of life? Is evolution incompatible with religion? My wife wants to bob her hair-how can I stop her? Should people about to marry confess to each other? What is the soul? Is a lie ever justifiable? Should there be universal birth control? How? Why? When? Where...
...therefore desire to retract said statement and attack upon the administration of Governor Miriam A. Ferguson and upon the character of Jim Ferguson. I freely admit and acknowledge, confess and declare that my said statement in reference to Governor Ferguson and Jim Ferguson is not true in whole or in part, and my statement above quoted and printed in The Crusader was made without any foundation in fact or upon any excuse that would justify me in making the same...
These suggestions, while exceedingly simple, have their indubitable efficacy to recommend them. In honesty, however, the CRIMSON must confess that the idea is not original, but was borrowed from Coach Zuppke, head trainer of Red Grange and the Illini. After his victory over Pennsylvania Saturday, Zuppke told a group of admirers that that and other victories came as a result of starving his men and administering to them large doses of caffeine or theine...
...details of such a scheme we leave to men plainly more qualified than ourselves. We confess, with no little hesitation and some fear, that our own mentality is more of the graduate type than the alumnus. This means, for one thing, that we cherish the pale remains of some anxiety about educational matters in the old sense. And we should therefore like to be allowed to put in a timid plea that some of the profits of Stadium Common, or Bowl Bonds, or Pigskin Preferred, which under the reign of a competent coach would be considerable, be paid...
...though I am not advanced in years, I confess that I am old- fashioned. I am so old-fashioned that my mind cannot discriminate between a young man hugging a young woman sitting upon a sofa, or hugging her upon the dance hall floor. And if the demands of modesty, and the requirements of sound social custom prohibit such a practice in the one case, I cannot see why they should not prohibit it in the other. For surely, my friends, if there is any choice between the two things, the odds are all in favor of the hugging...