Word: confessions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...might tell you that you have an abnormal leaning - towards certain mad tendencies. You crook out your elbows; you part your hair in the middle; you brush it down flat upon your temples (such foolishness as school-girls only used to be capable of); you never by any chance confess an interest in anything except tennis and Germans. Indifference, I believe you call it. But goodness preserve me from such a disposition! it is but a form of insanity which would in the end bring us back to the condition of barbarians; their indifference is but the acknowledgment of ignorance...
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...without being brilliant. They are inclined to be abusive, and abuse when not witty is unpardonable. We never approve of abuse; but when it is rich and incisive like the Acta's, we are half inclined to smile and forgive. The tone of the Yale New: is low. We confess that we were obliged to laugh at the "Vassar Football Game," but are sure that we did wrong to read such an article. We might possibly do it again, however. What there is in the University Magazine is good, particularly the editorials. Its tone is manly. The Cornell...