Word: profession
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Although a large number of schools profess themselves ready to prepare candidates for these examinations, practically very few are in a condition to do so, and in many cases the principal, aware of the school's deficiencies, discourages preparation for them. Thus the New York private school girl, in too many instances, passes her school years in acquiring an ill-regulated and superficial mass of knowledge instead of in being trained to those habits of thoroughness which are so necessary to women when called upon to take part in the practical affairs of life, whether as managers of households...
...compulsory system here was hailed by the faculty and students alike as a step toward true worship. It was a recognition of the truth that observance of mere forms is meaningless. Whoever attends chapel now, attends it with the true religious spirit and whatever faith a man may profess, whether he be Protestant, Romanist or Jew, he must recognize that the same motive acts upon the man who is to him a heretic, as upon himself, a desire to worship the Deity. Consequently every one, unless he be a veritable pessimist, must rejoice at the success which the voluntary system...
...recent exchanges, in a somewhat extended notice of the Harvard publications, has taken occasion to sneer at one of our papers, and show by invidious comparisons that our publications are not what they profess to be. While we do not desire to question the taste of the writer of such a criticism, we still feel that the courtesy of the press ought to have influenced the expression. The kindly feeling which has long existed between the various college papers, cannot easily be destroyed by criticisms of such a nature, but more pleasant relations will result in the future...
...with great pleasure that we call attention to an article in one of our columns taken from a Chicago paper. It is indeed flattering to have such homage part to Harvard students, and it may be the real feeling of many who profess to think otherwise. The young lady was evidently much surprised that she could travel alone out to the wilds of Chicago and Athol, and went prepared as some Europeans who expect to find Indians in Boston...
...ticket in order to purchase goods at the society's store. Of course, such an offence is nothing more nor less than deliberate fraud, and fraud, too, against the offender's own fellow students. However, such a case, from necessity, must be so rare an occurrence among those who profess to be gentlemen, that we but briefly call attention to it, before dismissing it from mind...