Word: tells
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...follows: He takes a wide subject and divides it into special topics, defining each, and limiting it so as not to encroach on another. He then chooses his topic, and works to exhaust it. When his topic has become exhausted, the knowledge of experience becomes essential; he can tell from the scale of fish everything science tells us about the fish; from a chip he can recognize a Greek statue; from a bone he can draw the skeleton. In fine, his object is to make the part reflect the whole. To this tendency of the German towards specialization...
...that those who were not at the first lecture might be made thoroughly familiar with the personality and surroundings of the drama. Mr. Lawton began his reading at the third Episode and finished the play. He did not attempt to give a dramatic delivery of the story, but to tell it in such a way that an intelligent comprehension of its true greatness might be gained by the audience. Mr. Lawton's rhythmic translation was most pleasing to the ear, and his attempts to render the odes into English verse of the Trochaic metre was signally successful. The college...
...John Graham Brooks, of Brockton, addressed a large audience last night in Sever 11. He tried, as he said, to tell a few results of his experience, the knowledge of which would have saved him much labor and many grave mistakes...
...Shepard Memorial Chapel. General Armstrong and Professor Peabody have planned this meeting for a long time, and it is to be regretted that the time of the year is so unfavorable to a large attendance. Several pupils of the Hampton School, both Indians and Negroes, will tell about their own careers. More information can be gained about Hampton and its method of work in a short time than in any other...
...author of this article is, we cannot tell. If he is a Harvard man, we cry shame upon him for his libelous attack upon the institution whose name should be dear to him; if he is a member of some other college, we cry shame upon him for bringing into question the good name of a sister college; if he is not bound to any college by ties of allegiance, we cry shame upon him for the dastardly blow he has attempted to strike at the cause of higher learning. We include in our condemnation the editors of the North...