Word: confessionally
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MY DEAR GUARDIAN, - You asked me in your last letter to tell you frankly what I had gained during my three years in College; so here goes, and, if the confession somewhat startles you, remember you drew it upon yourself.
...some cheap college in the country, - if indeed he is able to send them to any. Stronger cases than this might be easily adduced. The merchant who is struggling to avoid bankruptcy, the holder of real estate whose value has sunk below the mortgage, cannot enter the academic confessional and make known their griefs. The adjective poor as applied to those who seek the higher education has only a relative significance, - they are not generally in want of food or shelter. Bearing this in mind, and taking the classes of inherited culture to whom college opportunities especially appeal...
THE Pall Mall Gazette, in regard to the challenge Cornell has sent to England, says: "It is to be regretted if the refusal of Cambridge to row should be interpreted, as very likely it will be, into a confession of fear of the prowess of American oarsmen. But the truth...
If, after several like offences, the student refused to make confession thereof, he was to be "suspended from his seniority, and the privilege thereof at meales and for a week's time or more, according to the nature of his offence"; and continued persistency in this course rendered him liable...
A private admonition for first offence; a public admonition for second offence; for the third a public confession of the offence at some public meeting of the students; for the fourth, "he shall be noted down for a prophane person and have his commons sittings in the Hall uncovered." After...