Word: confession
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...this subject with diffidence, for I am well aware that one has pet superstitions in regard to the best way of applying strength to an oar; but when one reflects that distinguished physicians recommend certain remedies and other equally renowned doctors denounce the same remedies one is forced to confess that the only scientific way to decide upon the truth of various theories is to resort to scientific study and experiment...
...seems a mistake to set them so early in the year, for the amount of work done in any course in a month is very small and hardly sufficient to base an examination upon. There are some courses in which this is particularly applicable, and certain professors, moreover, confess that it is difficult in such a short time to set any kind of a satisfactory test examination. It is true that instructors are often dilatory in holding examinations and in returning the results - even when there is a fixed time for it - and the earlier the examinations...
...desire our lives to be lives of freedom, of noble service, of glad and happy labor for that which is best. Then acknowledge Christ as our Saviour, owner, Master, King and confess the greatness of our obligation...
...divine fitness, the leader. The essential qualities for this struggle are courage, obedience and discipline. Physical courage is largely a matter of organization, but the courage to face one's highest ideal, to acknowledge Jesus Christ is of a far higher kind. Emerson once said: "The best way to confess Jesus Christ is to say nothing about Him." I sympathize with Him because there is so much hypocricy and cant, but nevertheless we ought all to come out and gravely place ourselves under our Leader's banner...
...several of them have recently done in a little publication entitled "English Composition." In this modest book have been collected a number of daily and fortnightly themes, selected as the best and most representative compositions of the different English courses for which they were written. And when we confess that these compositions are far ahead of the work of most of us in originality of thought and finish of workmanship, we pay our collegiate sisters a compliment of the highest order...