Word: tells
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...tell me if students are supposed to get any benefit from Appleton Chapel on Sunday evenings? I was one of a large number of students who last evening were unable to hear the eminent preacher from India. We arrived shortly after seven o'clock. Instead of obtaining entrance by the south door, as students are especially directed in the official college calendar, the crowd of outsiders prevented our getting even to the chapel steps. Perhaps the ushers could not prevent. Cambridge people from crowding into the reserved seats. If so, the rude outsiders should be excluded altogether. Part...
Though we take any number of points on a curve, they will tell us nothing of its nature till we know the law that binds them together. Though a melody consists of separate, distinct notes, we could get no conception of it if we were to study these notes singly. They must be taken as a whole before they can appeal...
...defensive work is beginning to tell. In very few cases were Technology's backs able to buck the center successfully, and running round the end was out of the question. The interference was a little weaker than it has been in some days. The blockers did not strike their men hard enough to throw them clear off their feet...
...team. The contrast between the number of men who may be seen on Norton's Field every afternoon trying for positions on the freshman, sophomore and junior teams and the number supporting the seniors is very marked. Why more men do not try for the team is hard to tell. There is no logical reason for it. If a class team ever ought to be made to win it should be in its senior year, for in this year the discredit of defeat is greatest. Yesterday afternoon there were scarcely men enough to make one side of a game...
Overture "William Tell" Rossini