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Word: confessionals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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In a crowded court-room in Salem over eighty years ago the prosecuting attorney, Daniel Webster, pronounced what led to death on the men being tried for the murder of Captain White. His magnetic eloquence always effective, in this case left a profound impression on the minds of his contemporaries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REFUGE IN CONFESSION | 1/31/1923 | See Source »

All classes are assigned advisers; yet why Juniors and Seniors need them is not easily apparent. Any student who has been here for two years but has not acquired sufficient Information about courses deserves to have bad Jack in choosing them; incidentally it is a confession of weakness on the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIMING ADVICE | 5/26/1922 | See Source »

There is an old verse somewhere, "How are the mighty fallen!" which may well apply to the Classics. Four hundred years they held complete sway over literature and scholarship. Not to know Greek was to lack culture, not to read Latin was to be partially illiterate. Yet today it is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SECOND DECLINE AND FALL | 4/4/1922 | See Source »

Mr. Crabb's style is interesting, his plots is well thought out, but his analytical propensities, mentioned above, have too free rein in "Ben Thorpe". Pschycological discussion detracts from the effectiveness of the novel; it is introduced too clumsily, and, therefore, is a confession of weakness. The author is not...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSEHLF REVEIEWS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 10/15/1921 | See Source »

Word has come from Germany of the acquittal, in the series of trials and investigations into German submarine atrocities, of Lieutenant Neumann, commander of the U-boat that sunk the English hospital ship, "Dover Castle". He was adjudged to be not responsible, because he had orders from those "higher up...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GERMAN COMEDY | 6/6/1921 | See Source »

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