Word: confessions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maddened by a foolish, over-emphasized sport. He falls under the enchantment of fair ladyes, breathing an exotic Parisian perfume (twenty-five dollars an ounce in the year of our Lord nineteen-hundred and twenty-nine)and he remembers one, perhaps, who was intelligent; intelligent, and must the Vagabond confess, unattainable. So shall the eynic recant, with only the words, that if he heard a lecture on Saturday, it shall be from the uncomfortable vantage point of the Eli's fence...
...through the ear. And there seems to be a feeling that an instructor who cannot talk fifty-seven minutes on every daily topic is unworthy of his hire; seldom is a class dismissed, as it well might be, at the end of forty-five minutes; seldom does an instructor confess that the wealth of excellent reading material on a certain section of the field covered by his course make two meetings a week rather than three sufficient for that period. And the number of courses in which, as a result, lectures are industriously shunned, testifies to the need...
...case the wealth of an instructor's information over and above that obtainable in books, together with his interpretative views, are such that it is essential for him to talk twice a week for a half year. Thirty-two dull, padded disquisitions (and who has not heard young instructors confess to this vice?) might give way to fifteen comparatively brilliant ones, delivered towards the end of the semester. The more the faculty become convinced that their function is to comment, not to instruct, that the ideal is not to talk fifty-seven minutes three times a week...
...feel that winning visitors should be permitted to take the posts without opposition to take the posts without opposition, but confess we may be wrong. But, particularly in a game so cleanly and decisively won as that of Saturday, it would have been an act of good sportsmanship to lot the Brown men carry off the kindling unmolested. The chief charm of football is its good sportsmanship. The Saturday aftermath was not pleasingly fragrant. -Boston Traveller...
...believe the State's Attorney should stand here and confess he is not big enough to keep these men protected." observed the Court. "I think Mr. Bere is big enough to take care of himself...