Word: confession
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...proposed to make the training in natural science the main part of education, for the great majority of mankind at any rate. And here, I confess, I part company with the friends of physical science with whom up to this point I have been agreeing. The smallness of my acquaintance with the disciples of natural science is ever before my mind, and I am fearful of doing them injustice...
...spite of much harsh treatment, we must confess that we have always had a kind spot in our heart for the Vassar Miss, (we refer to the magazine of that name). The standard of this journal is always of the highest, and its pages are always interesting. It very seldom attempts the well-known heavy article that is so prominent a feature of so many of our ambitious exchanges, and at the same time its light articles are at least readable. All in all, the journal is a credit to its editors, and does much to establish our belief...
...confess to feeling strongly on this subject as a business man. We need, quite as much as professional men, the help and discipline which study alone can give. All buying and selling to get gain is debasing in its tendency, and especially so in this great city, where every year completion becomes keener and more pitiless. Only constant effort will enable a man to continue his reading and to keep his mind and tastes in such cultivation that he will find in such cultivation that he will find himself en rapport with men of letters. It is too often...
...ought, perhaps, to confess that in some respects we are behind the age, and have not followed the example set by several of the leading clubs of this city. We have not amused the public by giving them an account of the squabbles between our steward and the chairman of the House committee, nor enlivened our elections by issuing forged tickets and anonymous attacks on members, now given rise to false reports of duels by the brutal use of woman's names. [Cheers.] But then we are young, and perhaps before we reach the stage when such things are possible...
...well aware that it is easier to criticise rules when made than to make them. I confess that I do not wish to make them. I do not think that the making of rules for athletic sports is the business of the faculty of a college. Neither does it seem to me that the evils growing out of these sports have assumed such proportions as to call for faculty interference in the way proposed. I cannot but believe that it will be an unfortunate blow for the physical and essentially manly development of our educated youth if these rules...