Word: tells
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...home, begins to wonder how he can ever repay this obligation. If he went to the previous generation of men from whom part of his benefits had come, and if he should ask them what he should do even to begin to pay back all he owes, they would tell him not to consider the debt as standing against them, but to transfer it with interest to the generation about to come after. Most men are not in a position where they can give very much at once to their successors in college; they have to content themselves with...
SIRS: - Perhaps the part of Class Day that creates most wide-spread excitement is the exercises at the tree. It is only natural that there should be an excited curiosity attending these exercises, for when one enters the enclosure one can never tell what one will see before one comes away. For the last few years past of what one has seen has been disgraceful. A certain amount of good, natural "scrapping" adds to the fun, but when men get to fighting so that their classmates have to pull them apart it is disgusting, and it must be especially...
...Overture, "William Tell," Rossini...
...orcestral concerts in Sanders Theatre are better appreciated. The combination of forces working together at the Symphony Concerts produces a musical effect that is wonderful. Sanders Theatre is peculiarly adapted to orchestral music, for while being small enough to allow each instrument to be heard and to tell its story, the distance of the orchestra from the audience is large enough to permit a most exquisite blending of effect. Add to this the fact that the orchestra is ranked among the four greatest in existence, and the result is something as near perfection as can be wished...
History comes from a root that means to see, then to know by seeing, and finally to tell what is known. Such is the Greek, Latin, Italian and English idea. The German word, geschickte or das geschehen expresses a somewhat different idea, that which has happened, and German writers lay more stress on facts. Indeed there may be said to be no literary history in Germany. We have regarded history as a literary art, and often literary men that can hardly be said to have been historical scholars have taught in the large universities of England. A definition of history...