Word: confessions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reported that the trustees of Princeton "have adopted" the new regulations in athletics, although the faculty have not yet done so and feel much hesitancy about so doing. We confess that we are not able to gather from this whether it is finally decided that the regulations will be enforced at Princeton or not. The regulation of sports in itself would seem to be a matter for faculty decision, but we presume that the board of trustees has a complete jurisdiction in the matter and can force action on the part of the faculty. Princeton's attitude is naturally...
...water, which shall contest with the University of Pennsylvania for the proud title of champions of the world. Although the prejudices acquired in nearly four years at Yale have rather incapacitated us for looking with unalloyed delight on the aquatic victories of Harvard, yet in the present instance we confess that we would be more than pleased to see her second eight victorious over the crew which so confidently appealed to the public opinion to award it the championship because no college found it convenient to gratify its frantic demand for a race. [Yale News...
...does not interfere in the slightest degree. Not long ago it was determined to establish a school for boys, to train them for the college. At once friends of the college gave $600,000 for the school, and it is now being established a few miles from Princeton. I confess when I heard of the decision of the Louisiana Supreme Court that the property I had already given would be taxed, it made me sick. I was sick for two weeks. I have not yet gotten over it. I am prepared to add largely to my donations, and some...
...disagreed with our views on the subject of Mr. Emerson's position in regard to posterity as expressed in an editorial. We of course recognize the entire right of the one who wrote the communication to hold any view wha-soever on Mr. Emerson's position, although we must confess we believe Mr. Arnold's criticism just. As a proof that the criticism was unjust, he says that "the truth has always been held to be that Emerson was the foremost philosopher that this century has produced." This is, of course, no disproof of Mr. Arnold's claim, which...
...boat house at the time of the accident. Mr. Knapp finds several faults, each of which contributed to bring about the disaster,-some of which an examination would have shown, and some not. Neither the club nor the college seems to be to blame in particular, although we must confess it seems to us quite unsatisfactory to learn that, when a little careful investigation would have saved us from the accident, it was not made. That no one knew such an investigation was needed cannot possibly be an excuse ; it ought to have been known, and the structure made safe...