Word: professed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Convention. - That convention of colleges which was to have been held on March 27 at Springfield fell through entirely, Williams being the only college represented. Wesleyan, who organized the convention, was not represented because her delegates were detained by examinations. The other colleges profess lack of funds and want of interest, hoping, however, for a congress next year. We shall see what will result...
...course individual opinion will not much influence the sentiment of the whole class in one direction or another, but there are some men, of whom I profess to be one, who would seriously lament to see this day done away with, fittingly commemorating as it does, in both jollity and seriousness, the successful termination of a laborious course of four years, in some cases five or more...
...from this direction are most liberal, be seriously hampered by lack of funds. Where this poverty will be unavoidably and disastrously felt is in the matter of new boats; and it is here that the graduates can best help us, here that they can best prove the interest they profess in us, and best establish a foundation for the right they claim of influencing the boating policy of Alma Mater; for representation without taxation is as unjust as taxation without representation...
...class feeling depends on the answers to these questions, and I cannot doubt how any one will answer them who has lost the ardor of his Freshmanhood. Then why not acknowledge that class feeling exists no longer, and cease trying to give expression to a creed we no longer profess? It would require some determination, perhaps; the young ladies might look a little chagrined when we told them that there would be no dancing and hugging about the tree; but it would be manly and straightforward, and we could no longer be accused of cant. But there is a question...
...least, competitive examinations and rich fellowships are entirely unknown. It is asserted that, by the English system, all inclination for original research is not only not fostered, but is even repressed. If these objections to the Cambridge and Oxford methods are really well founded (and an American can hardly profess to be a judge of the matter except with regard to the comparison between English and German scholarship), any changes founded upon them should be regarded with anything but a friendly eye; and especially should they be thus regarded, since the Englishmen, who as a rule are never prone...