Word: confession
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...disgusted with the management of the club that they are ready to resign." We have yet to find any one who considers the record of the club through the autumn and winter as good as its record in recent years. Even the management of the club confess that the Arlington concert was "below par." More than one of members who took part believe that it could be "called nothing else than disgraceful." The concert last Friday evening certainly deserves commendation. If the improvement shown there is continued, we shall have nothing but praise for future concerts...
...attempt to decry Harvard and her methods. The leading editorial is, to say the least, exceedingly unpatriotic. The tone of complaint is almost childish. It is quite evident that the Advocate has ceased to express a fair public opinion. We quote one of the most striking sentences: "We must confess our belief in the existence of a strong body in the faculty, headed by a personage of great influence, the aim of which is ultimately to confine Harvard athletics within the limits of Harvard college." The editorial then accuses this faction of working secretly against intercollegiate athletics and of making...
...failure to accept Cornell's challenge does not confess or acknowledge the superiority of Cornell's crew, and has nothing to do with that question. For their action in this matter Harvard and Yale have reasons which seem to them sufficient, and neither their acceptance nor their refusal to accept the challenge would or could have any bearing on the ability of Cornell's oarsmen. If Swarthmore college, which never rowed a race, should challenge Yale and be refused, would that refusal be a written confession of the superiority of the Swarthmore eight...