Word: confessions
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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They had said there were to be only a few friends, and I naturally hoped that they would be mutual friends; but no, as my hostess turned around and said, "I suppose you know most of them here," I was obliged to confess that I did not know a face. They were not even the kind of people one sees at parties. Every girl looked as if she studied too hard, and had come there as a part of her other work...
...Bluer than your stockings?" said I. It was a brutal thing; I confess...
...must ask the pardon, therefore, of our editorial friends at Yale and elsewhere for making one more allusion to the Hall. We have not always been so fortunate as to agree in every point with the Board of Directors, but, looking at their labors as a whole, we confess that their year's work is very creditable to them. They took the Hall embarrassed by an incompetent steward, and with a small membership; they leave it flourishing, with a fair membership, and its management in the hands of a steward who gives very general satisfaction. The price of board...
...such a subject as "The Moors in Spain," or "Womanhood in Shakespeare and Milton," or again, "The Unity of the Bible," if broached at all, should be treated at length. The Hamilton editors probably think that "brevity is the soul of wit"; in reading their last issue we must confess that we " start, for soul is wanting there...
...Patent Office, it is no easy task to keep posted on the latest improvements, and ignorance of the progress of education may sometimes be pardoned. Still, we felt we were behind the times when we were obliged, after reading on a catalogue the name of Drury College, to confess that we had never heard of it before. A perusal of the catalogue has given us some idea of how they furnish young ladies and gentlemen with a liberal education in Missouri...