Word: profession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...INCREASING PURPOSE-A. S. Hutchinson-Little, Brown ($2.00). Some people take the author of // Winter Comes for a well-meaning fellow, whose inarticulateness is brought on by a great and overpowering sincerity. Others profess to find in his lapses of grammar, Ids incessant repetition of hanging phrases and mazes of parenthetical elucidation, the traits of a deliberate genius for writing of the perplexing muddle known as Life to Average People. Still others, a critical few, whose censure affects the sales of Author Hutchinson's books about as much as it would discourage gum-chewing among U. S. salesladies, maintain...
...daily themes, occasional long compositions, and a novel, provide excellent opportunity for literary experimentation. But one cannot help feeling that Professor Hurbut would be a better guide to his students if he lived less in the literary past. While it is greatly to his credit that he should profess an admiration for the works of Jane Austen and the eighteenth century authors, it is less to his credit as an instructor that he should at the same time proclaim so complete an ignorance of Michael Arlen and his ill if only for the sake of pointing out the absurdities...
...examination. My impression is that most of the harping on the need of making the way into college more difficult is a smoke screen behind which members of college faculties are concealing their inability to impart to others the knowledge and interest they possess in the subjects which they profess. They are, of course, quite justified in doing this if the college exists, as some seem to think, for the sake of the professors...
...true. This possibility religious bigots deny. Truth to them is a tiny wad, and they claim to have it all. Such a conflict will do much to discredit religion. The real enemy, however, is not religion itself, but the obnoxious and blighting egotism of some of those who profess...
...That membership must be open to all who profess themselves Christians according to the so-called "evangelical" manner-i.e., Baptist, Congregationalist, Methodist, Presbyterian and the like...