Word: confessing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Class Day itself, and the most important of the events of this day. It will not hurt any one to enter this friendly contest, and it should mean a good deal to the men who value and love Harvard's old traditions. We must confess that we have far more respect for the senior who joins in the scrimmage with a sense of hearty good fellowship and enthusiasm, than for the senior who watches the fun from a comfortable seat on the stand well out of harm...
...that we must rally to the defence of the "Monroe! Doctrine." This doctrine is now more than seventy years old, and it is its spirit rather than its letter with which we are concerned now. As I understand it, I hold it in the highest respect; but I frankly confess that, viewing the utterances of 1823 in the light of 1896, I can see nothing in them which makes them in any respect applicable to the present case. Nothing is plainer in President Monroe's famous message of 1823 than that he referred solely to attempts on the part...
...Because a game is rough and has not as yet been regulated in a proper measure, are we as Americans going to throw over the entire sport? Are we going to confess that we are unable to take advantage of its strong, healthy points, and simply say it is too rough a game for boys to play? * * * Let us rather make a point of seeing that they learn to play fairly; that they learn to govern their brute instincts, that only those who are able to do this are permitted to indulge in rough play...
...tell others what his teachings had been to them. This was the duty he expected of all his followers. A Christian must first be manly, noble and pure himself, and then teach others how to be so. The hardest part of a Christian's life was to confess God man to man, to try to make other men true and earnest in their life. Yet this is the duty of every Christian...
...confess that it is with more and more diffidence that I rise every year to have my little talk with you about books and the men that have written them. If I remember my terrestrial globe rightly, one gets into his temperate zone after passing the parallel of forty, and arrives at that shall I call it Sheltered Haven of Middle Age, when, in proportion as one is more careful of the conclusions he arrives at, he is less zealous in his desire that all mankind should agree with him. Moreover, the longer one studies, the more thoroughly does...