Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...term," which naturally sounds somewhat lower than the janitor's price; but which, taken in connection with the fact that there are two terms in each year, places the subject in a different light. I have written this simply from a spirit of justice, and I must candidly admit that my treatment at the hands of janitors has been such as to warrant my preference for them over scouts, while my work has been better done...
...Cornell has the laurels of the Freshman race, and she had to work hard to get them. The men of '81 pulled a plucky and determined race, and showed themselves a more manly set of men than the unfavorable criticism of the college was, at one time, inclined to admit. The warnings that the Advocate urges upon the present Freshman class are wise and practical. It is useless to undertake to row a race when the amount of money that can be raised to support the crew is still a vague uncertainty: it is also well, before sending a challenge...
...lease will not expire until a year from next October. If he should sell the boats he would still have the rent to pay on an estate that was bringing him in no income. Mr. Blakie may lock the doors of the boat-house next October, and refuse to admit any one until a sufficient number of paying members is obtained, and this would be a wise course for him to take. In spite of these facts we still think that "the status of the 'house-clubs' for next year does not seem to warrant the discouraging article...
...front of the building, which will face and be parallel to Cambridge Street, will be ornamented by a large porch over the entrance, and a broad double flight of stone steps. Folding-doors admit the visitor to an entrance-hall which opens on the left to the hall, and on the right to the office, where the Curator can see every one that goes out or in. The main hall of the gymnasium is 119 feet long at its greatest length, and 81 feet at its greatest width. It is as long as the Memorial Dining-Hall, and considerably wider...
...remarkable fact in regard to him is, that his mind ran in the same veins, and evolved the same conclusions, as the minds of the leading philosophers and scientists of to day. It is only within a few years that theologians of established worth have been willing to admit truths in regard to the future life that the astronomer poet of Persia uttered eight centuries...