Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...meditate in this icy strain, we must admit there is a good side to this winter drill. It is extremely healthy and it wakes us up. Though a sacrifice, it has to be done, as going indoors is decidedly preventive of good military manoeuvres. We want to stay outdoors as long as we possibly can; it is the same and sensible though uncomfortable solution. We have started this drill and we will carry it through, ralic or shine, warm or cold. They do it at Devens, not for an hour, but for hours at a time. They have been doing...
...LaFarge on the practical application of his theories. "To Meliboeus" is undoubtedly the finest poem in the number. Otherwise the verse is not distinguished. We feel keenly the absence of Mr. Hillyer. Does Mr. Rogers ("The New Shakespeare,") really think the age heroic? If so, he must surely admit that it is heroism without intelligence...
...Ford considers his pleasure car. The undergraduate body is bewildered; some of us never knew that the notorious "flivver" ever went under the incognito name of a pleasure car. It is baffling in the extreme. Ford owners deny that their car belongs to the class of pleasure vehicles; they admit that they have had service from the automobile, but never enjoyment. In short the consensus of opinion is that the Ford is not a pleasure car. Yet this afternoon an extra came out announcing that the Ford Company was going to build a pleasure car in spite of the reports...
...officers of these societies regret that the limited capacity of the hall makes it necessary to admit only men of the Law School and the Graduate Schools...
...biases his personal opinions that he is unable to think except in terms of self. Then comes the trained specialist whose whole education has been limited to a certain field and who has completely disregarded whatever was irrelevant to his chosen province. It is true this fellow will admit that one may get a start in the right direction at college, the right direction being his own field of work, but a liberal education he considers a waste of valuable time. The last type is the ignorant who scoffs because he does not know, and his opinion may by dispensed...