Word: tell
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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German III will begin Schiller's Wilhelm Tell on Friday...
What the results of such a service might be a few words may tell. Prayers would come to be of meaning; they would be a help and not a hindrance. A more sincere religious feeling would necessarily be diffused throughout the college. A higher and a broader morality would be created in student life. That reverence and love which religion, if of any meaning, must inspire, would be preserved, instead of being, as at present, foolishly and blindly wasted. The very manliness of a nobler ideal would ripen into nobler lives. The memories of such a service would linger...
...Boston papers tell a story of a Yale poker game which was recently played. It was a jack pot and it had grown, after much heavy betting to $250. The loser, wonderful to relate, fainted on the show of hands. We are inclined to discredit this story for we think no Yale man would faint...
From these few examples of translations it is quite evident that the attempt to find a love story in the German was very general. The pronoun, "sie," is quite as suggestive and inspiring as our own "she." Perhaps the translations tell too well the tendencies of youth...
...ultimately to arrive at some conclusion, to suggest some remedy. What are the facts? Two resolutions have been passed that represent in their tenor student opinion, it is true, but only in a manner that any self-evident assertions would. We surely did not need a Conference Committee to tell us, after three months of discussion, that the present marking system of the university is unjust, and that it ought to be changed. What we wanted, what we expected was a recommendation to the faculty of a plan decreasing the present evils. This would have been an indication of student...