Word: tell
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tell much of the habits of a man by looking at his books and seeing how be treats them. To students, of all men, the care of books is interesting. To some men, the books become more valuable the longer they are used, to others, their text books are only necessary evils for which they care nothing when their examinations are passed. The first will be glad of a few suggestions which will enable them to preserve their friendly volumes through long grinds. The fingers should not be wet to turn the leaves, nor should the corners be turned down...
...honest, straightforward way, that the latter may exert his strength to the best advantage in knocking it, now uses every effort to deceive him by curving-I think that is the word-the ball. And this is looked upon as the last triumph of athletic science and skill. I tell you it is time to call halt! when the boasted progress in athletics is in the direction of fraud and deceit." Probably the annals of debate among intelligent men will show nothing richer or fresher than this. Brothers Nichols of Harvard and Moffat of Princeton will hereafter kindly refrain from...
...There is not a college graduate in Sing Sing to-day," said Mr. Walker. "If the argument that common school education is a preventive of crime and poverty is a good one, will some one tell me why a college education is not better? The expensive crimes to a community are what may be termed crimes of intelligence; not murder and beastliness, but forgery and burglary on sound chemical, mechanical, and scientific principles. It is a clear proposition of republican government that the greater the number of the inhabitants who are intellectually cultivated the greater the safety of the State...
...late Professor Sophocles is pleasantly remembered by the many Harvard men resident in this locality, writes a Worcester correspondent to the Springfield Republican. They tell a variety of curious stories about his eccentricities. He did not like to go into society, and would sometimes spend an evening out at the urgent request of a particular friend. Although oriental in most of his habits, he had a great aversion to tea. This was shown in a marked manner on one occasion when, being asked at the supper table if he would have a cup of that beverage, he greatly astonished...
...these changes the "old" foot-ball player has seen, and, whatever sneaking fondness he may have for the game as played in his day, he is ready to acknowledge that it is played more scientifically now. But he will tell us that the game is more of a business than...