Word: tells
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...order to judge him. This has happened enough within the last five weeks to warrant one in enquiring into the position of the faculty towards such a student, All possible witnesses are interrogated, but, as the "Dickinsonian" says, "it is very seldom that a witness is found who will tell all that he knows." What are the faculty to do? Shall they use their judgment in default of anything else? They have done so lately, and it is safe to say they are not themselves satisfied with what they have done. It should be distinctly remembered that the members...
...Clyde, 3dThe Goddess of Truth, a young person in scanty drapery who cannot tell...
...much the strength of the men, nor the style they row in, nor they way they jump. It is whether they have got themselves into that condition by long and regular repetition of this same stroke or jump that is going to tell in the test case. Whatever may be said to the contrary it is undoubtedly true that university teams, in the present condition of college athletics, have a regular business before them. There is no pleasure in playing a championship game of foot-ball with Yale College. And, perhaps, there is still less in rowing a race...
...years ago. No one can deny that there is not that atmosphere about us to-day that used to rouse the enthusiasm and stimulate the nobler aspirations of those who were young in the first half of this century. How many causes have wrought this change any one can tell who breathes the commercial air of America. But there are still among us men in whose power it lies to stir our sluggish blood, to broaden our ever-narrowing field of higher enjoyment and to lead us into the sanctuaries of our literature. Is it then asking too much...
...days afterwards met the "Athletics" of Philadelphia and United States Champions. The "Athletics" were naturally victorious, 22-10, but the Harvard team made an exceedingly creditable showing. The game was the "most scientific ever seen in New England, up to this time. As errors were not scored, we cannot tell the relative merits of the nines, but the "Athletics" probably excelled in both fielding and batting. Parker again distinguished himself in this game by his up-in the-air fly-catching" and all-round play. This Parker, by the way, played in forty-two matches while '67 was in college...