Word: tells
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...good. An acquaintance of mine recently found this comment as what was meant for a description: "Regarded as a chapter this shows skill. It reminds me of a passage in Kidnapped." Now it happened that my illiterate friend had merely "skimmed" Kidnapped two years before. What did the criticism tell him? Even if he had read Kidnapped how was he to know whether his theme seemed to the instructor a feeble imitation or a dangerous rival of Mr. Stevenson? And certainly the comment told absolutely nothing about the theme regarded as a description...
...venture to suggest that B or C written at the end of a theme would tell one a good deal more than most of the criticisms which one now finds there. If his themes were marked one would have a definite notion of the value of his work-a notion which he certainly cannot get from "This shows care" or "Literary promise." Of course there are drawbacks to my plan, but I offer it as an improvement, not as an ideal...
...Charles E. L. Wingate, the bright dramatic editor of the Boston Journal, has in press 'The Playgoers' Year-Book,' which will tell the story of the stage in Boston for the year 1887. The book will be valuable and interesting, as it will contain plots in story form of all the leading plays and operas, complete sketches of all new works with their histories, analyses of the plays and the acting, comments of many authors and actors on their own pieces, full casts of characters of the principal performances and portraits of actors and actresses, with illustrations of plays...
Facts will tell. New Haven votes for license by over 2,000 majority...
...marrow? If so, it proves the thorough efficiency of the instructor; if not, Mr. "English 12" has no right to complain. The instructors at Harvard take the students to be more than mere school-boys, who require to be humored and lightly dealt with, lest they "go home and tell their Pa!" Perhaps it might suit our young Ajax were the instructor to say to him, "Oh, please excuse me, Mr. So-and-So, for mentioning it, I really hope you won't mind, but your work is not quite up to Dickens or Thackeray or Macaulay. It's really...