Word: confessions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that there is a prospect of another step from a conservative to a liberal policy. There is no reason for making Juniors take fourteen hours, except that they always have done so. We cannot see why Seniors should take fewer hours than Juniors are obliged to, unless the Faculty confess that the work previous to the Senior year has been too much, and that some opportunity for making up the conditions necessitated by too many requirements is due to the average student. We should be inclined to advise the Sophomores to follow the example set by the Juniors, if Rhetoric...
...handsome; let me confess so much at the outset: but I have been called pretty. Young Harry Thornberg, - who is married now; I never could endure him, though people said I hadn't the ghost of a chance, which, I take it, means the whole body of one, - he once remarked, when some one rallied him on his attachment for me, "A pretty wife she'd make!" His heart was touched, I know...
...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...
When you'll confess you cannot mark...
...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...