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Word: admittedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...McKenzie. '59. 1, "The question of morning prayers is virtually settled I think. I do not see how the system can be maintained on its present basis. * * In the new plan, what-ever it may be, the voluntary principle must prevail. 2, I should favor the change which should admit students without the knowledge of Greek, provided they offered a substitute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The New Overseers' Views. | 4/24/1886 | See Source »

...catchers' mask so universally used by ball players was invented by Thayer, when a member of the Harvard nine in 1877. Harry Wright does not admit this priority to Thayer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 4/2/1886 | See Source »

...ignorance of the true state of the cribbing question before the Conference Committee. The committee did not take up the question of its own motion and could not therefore avoid the discussion without extreme discourtesy, even granting that it was desirable to do so. But we do not admit that the discussion of the question is objectionable. The mere fact that the subject is being agitated is not in the least proof that the practice is universal, or even generally prevalent here. The members of the committee would be the first to deny the truth of such an inference...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/1/1886 | See Source »

...membership tickets will not admit to the crew benefit Saturday, as the meeting is not given under the auspices...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/23/1886 | See Source »

...school, he naturally gets to consider them as elementary and childish as he grows up; but this notion ought not to be fostered by the school system itself. The vast majority of men in college who are not blind to their own faults and deficiencies, will be found to admit that their knowledge of geography is in a woeful plight. In this point as in all other matters, we have a great deal to learn from the Germans. There this study is taught right through the school course for two hours a week, excepting in some gymnasia, where the last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Geography. | 3/19/1886 | See Source »

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