Word: pardon
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...mechanically trained for soldiership, so that in the hour of actual test, his mind may be made free to wage "an intelligent warfare." Aside from statements like the following: "It is impossible to cultivate a soldierly posture without feeling the dignity of one's manhood," which he will pardon me for calling a little absurd--Mr. Allport's article seems to me extremely sound and valuable...
...constant prayer; Pete blasphemes. In time Mike's assurance that he dies in peace because the sins of the penitent are forgiven by God and by all Christian men gives Pete new hope; Pete confesses that the has sinned with Mike's wife, proclaims his repentance, and demands pardon. Mike, facing death, forgives him; but hearing the picks of the rescuing party and seeing release, strangles him. The play has strength. Mr. Silverman and Mr. Walker acted it with earnestness and dignity, but without the skill to do it complete justice...
...reading the article in the CRIMSON on "Illiterate Collegians" you ask "Who is to blame?" Allow me to write and even if I am a poor ignorant woman that left school in the sixth grade of the "Grammar School" to earn my own living so please pardon my ignorance. Before my son went to Harvard I have heard several times of young men that did not make good, that in some cases Harvard turns out "educated fools." Well, I worked hard for twenty years to send my son to Harvard feeling that where I had nothing in the line...
...even the slightest education. If a man could translate a little Latin into his mother tongue, he could not be tried by a civil court for any crime. He could claim "benefit of clergy" and be tried in an ecclesiastical court--and the ecclesiastical court was very likely to pardon, or to inflict comparatively mild punishment...
Wright in his "Dies Irae," indeed, recalls the old formula, but the picture he paints is so vididly colored that one is willing to pardon him for giving only a picture...