Word: tells
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...surely has passed when students adjudge the members of their faculty capable only of gaining and imparting knowledge. Is it not just possible that among this body of men of matured judgement there may be some who, as a result of years of quiet observation, are able to tell us, and tell us truly, wherein our athletic system and methods are at fault? The supposition certainly seems a plausible one. The CRIMSON cannot believe that these men are dead to Harvard's athletic interests; on the contrary, we believe that they are thoroughly alive to the success of her teams...
...subject, said Dr. Walcott, is so large that many deficiencies in treatment are inevitable. In the first place, how can we tell what the health of a given body of men may be? Only, strangely enough, by the death rate. Fifty years ago in England, competent officers were appointed in every parish to collect its vital statistics, and now the government publishes yearly a volume of about nine hundred pages, so accurately compiled that all inferences about the health of the modern world are based upon it. In Massachusetts the same system has been adopted and an excellent yearly report...
...player. An influential member of the Harvard nine was in town yesterday and today endeavoring to get Ammerman to leave Pennsylvania and enter Harvard. He offered to have Ammerman's tuition and board paid and give im a cash bonus besides. He even went went so far as to tell Ammerman that there was a ticket to Boston waiting for him at the Pennsylvania Railroad station. Ammerman refused his offer and said he went to Pennsylvania on his own account and would go to no institution on other terms...
...much interest was shown by several of the students after Professor Norton's lecture on Delphi that the Classical club asked Mr. Lawton to tell what has been done since. In response to their invitation he lectured last evening in Sever hall...
...What are my impressions of the university? Well, to tell the truth, I had some very distinct impressions of Harvard before I came here, and I cannot say that they have changed very materially. We editors, you know, keep our eyes on the whole world, and we know what is going on at all the great colleges and universities, whether they are in Heidelberg, Germany, or in Cambridge, America. I have walked about the college grounds a good deal during my visit here, and I have seen many fine fellows among the students here. I have met a number...