Word: confesses
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...theatre, the parts are doubled and the same actor who stalked as the majesty of buried Denmark, may appear as a clown after a change of scenes. The lover, the poet, the mourner, the mystic, after their fine frenzies feel that there is something ludicrous in dining, and to confess a fondness for lobster or a sorrow that oysters are out of season seems a satire on their hardly cold ideal longings and regrets...
Good as the suggestion is, we confess that the plan does not seem feasible. A hotel would probably not pay; the patronage, taking the whole year into consideration, would hardly be large enough to ensure financial success. If the Colonial Club were not well established in its present quarters, it might be possible to have a large building, part of which should be devoted to the uses of a club modelled after the Colonial, and a separated part devoted to the accommodation of such visitors as secure introduction from a University officer. By combining the two under one management...
...second essential is morality: for though there may be morality without religion, there can not be religion without morality. With shame I admit that we in the East are guilty of great offense against this virtue; and were you equally honest, you would have to confess that even your ministers are often sadly immoral. It is easy to say that because of it this or that religion is wrong, and to protest against that of which we do not approve; but until we have proved ourselves to be above it, to have outgrown such popular failings, our protest...
...long ago a member of the Law School who was asked by some strangers where Austin Hall was situated, was forced to confess, after long and vigorous thought, that he did not know. This is an aggravated case of an ignorance concerning Harvard's equipment which is prevalent to a remarkable extent among the students. Many a man spends year after year here without learning the names, much less the internal arrangement and contents, of half the buildings which he passes time and time again. Especially is this the case with the various museums connected with the University...
...explaining the complexity of this life, with its ever varying outward forms, and its development in countless directions, analysis must always fail; for the analytical and mechanical methods of examining nature of necessity neglect one side, and that the most important, of natural life,-the mental side. Naturalists confess that the field of mind lies beyond their reach...