Word: tells
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting before. This in action deserved censure, but it by no means justifies the extreme stand taken by our correspondent. The communication is based on several misapprehensions. In the first place the conference has not concluded the discussion of the marking system. The conference, again, was not organized "to tell us, after three months of discussion, that the present marking system is unjust," nor were the resolutions passed designed to tell the students anything. They were intended to tell the faculty something, and this end, we claim, they will accomplish. The information will, we believe, be of positive worth...
...well for all to remember that most of the successful story tellers have written clearly and feelingly of the everyday life about them, - a life which they knew thoroughly. The number of men who have succeeded in other lines of narration can be counted upon the fingers. To tell about something very sad and awful may possibly benefit a young author, because it is exercise for his imagination; it may even amuse him. But generally it neither benefits nor amuses anyone else. There is one Poe, and one Hawthorne; and their mantles have not fallen promiscuously on all undergraduates...
...vera deeficult question. All the feelosophers of antiquity have tried their hand at it. Sookrates tried it and failed; Plato did no better. Descarites, Spinoza and Leibnitz were obliged to confess it was too much for them. Kant tried it and made a mess of it, and to tell you the truth, gentlemen, (chewing his thumb-knuckle very vigorously) I canna make much of it myself." - University Herald...
...grande thing to be a bold, bad man. Now a grind is never a bold, bad man. He is just the opposite. He can give you the length in parasangs of Xenephon's march to the sea; he can sketch for you a technical plan of Olympus; he can tell you the exact size of the sail-cloth in which Helen, the divine of women, was wrapped when the lily-like voiced ancients threw one to the other the winged word, as she passed them by; he can tell you who was the grandmother of Apollo; in fine...
...themes again emphasised the need of such an arrangement in a really good criticism. Almost every junior in writing his first theme this year followed this advice and wrote a synopsis of the work criticised. When the themes were returned the following was written upon almost every theme, "Why tell the story; this is not criticism. Re-write." To rewrite a theme simply because the plan advocated by some instructors was followed is an injustice, to put the case mildly. Further comment upon the able management of our English Department is unnecessary...