Word: confessionals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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As the prying reached to Hillyer Hawthorne Straton's private creed and personal practices, a Negro among the inquisitors asked him what he thought of "sanctification," and it almost seemed as though the glib answers suddenly betrayed shallowness as the youth hesitated and then chose to answer a different...
Mr. Coolidge has done and said many astonishing things. But seldom has he done or said anything more astonishing than when he proclaims to the world his willingness to rest the salvation of his soul upon the ethics of big business. And seldom has there been a more revealing confession...
Essentially, the sacrifice of time from secular for religious instruction is a confession of family incompetence, an admission that parents can no longer be trusted to provide opportunity for the religious teaching of their children. To this end, therefore, the state as symbolized by the White Plains school board furnishes...
At his Indianapolis home Mr. Wilson said: "I had no more to do with the overthrow of Madero than Woodrow Wilson, and of course he had nothing to do with it. This was purely a manufactured charge made by a newspaper correspondent. In response to that charge I instituted suit...
"American college debating has been for some years, by the confession of its own devotees, quite dour and dismal. Should it become now a laughing-stock? Harvard, Yale and Princeton have undertaken to move it in this direction. The crucial topic set for their latest triangular wrangling--"Resolved, that education...