Word: tells
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Tell me, for that is the rose less fair...
...McNeill and a party of friends of Princeton will go to Russia this summer to take observations on astronomical phenomena best observed there. Meanwhile Princeton does not lose her reputation for preminence in spectroscopy. The top of the observatory has been painted blue. Why, it is impossible to tell. The conical-roofed tower glared with blue light over the compass, unpleasantly and unwelcomedly...
...senior class for the trouble they have recently taken in satisfying my curiosity. I sent them a circular last week asking for information about their expenses, and already the larger number of them have replied. I wish it were possible for me to acknowledge their letters individually and to tell them how kind I think them. A rather intrusive question has been answered with courtesy. Men have replied with much minuteness, have ransacked old account-books, have explained sudden variations of expenses occuring in successive years, have reported the means by which they have been able to earn money, have...
...committee was appointed, with Treasurer Morgan as chairman, to take charge of the matter, and letters were at once written to the various steamship companies asking their lowest rates. Just at present we are deliberating on what our expenses would be after reaching America. Some friends of ours tell us that it is customary for the railroad and steamboat companies and hotels benefited by the crowds that go to such events to defray the expenses, and advised us either to write to them or to ask Harvard to learn for us what could be done in that direction. There would...
...still, without an answer, hear the old cry for back nets on the tennis grounds. The three courts in the corner of Holmes which have them, have given proof of the practicability of the scheme, and if the Tennis Association will not furnish nets, will it not, at least, tell why? Again, if we must still suffer the "shack" system, will not the Association repeat its good work of last season and establish a fixed rate? Answers to these questions would be acceptable to more than...