Word: confession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Including Film Fun, Screen Romances, I Confess, etc.; also Modern Romances. Modern Screen Magazine (sold exclusively through Kresge and Kress stores...
...About to depart for a "rest" in Palm Springs, Calif., Mayor James John Walker aroused his critics to fury by remarking to a group of social workers: "I will confess that I have been more or less shocked by the reports of the framing of innocent women...
...certain that a magazine of your high repute and obvious desire for accuracy would not publish such a statement unless it possessed some foundation in actual fact. I am always interested in my father's activities, but confess with shame that in regard to this aspect of them I am woefully ignorant. May I, therefore, inquire what is the basis of truth on which you rely for the allegation contained in the words I have italicized and in particular how long and in what way this has been going...
...free to confess that in the treatment of professors at Rollins College we do not carry out this Twelfth Century program anything like completely, but its underlying idea--namely that professors are made for the students, not students for the professors--is likewise the idea at Rollins...
...confess, moreover, that the introduction and maintenance of the two-hours conference system has been far from easy. It presupposes a very unusual type of professor--the sympathetic, lovable type, whom students will recognize instantly as a friend. A Phi Beta Kappa key, a Ph. D., an aptitude for research, and the authorship of half a dozen, text-books may be sufficient to qualify a man for a professorship at the ordinary college, but not at Rollins. I never call a man to Rollins unless, beyond all this, former students of his tell me that he is a human being...