Word: tells
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University second crew has been broken up into two coxless four-oars, Both of them show power and space well, though it is too early at present to tell how they will develop...
...Concert in Symphony Hall this evening: 1. March, "Le Pere le Victoire," Ganne 2. Overture, "Stradella," Flotow 3. Waltz, "Legends from the Vienna Woods," Strauss 4. Kunstler Carnival, Svendsen 5. Selection, "Madam Butterfly," Pucinni 6. a. Solvejg's Song, Grieg b. Norwegian Dance, Grieg 7. Overture, William Tell," Rossini 8. Czardas, "The Ghost of the Wojiwoden," Grossman 9. Introduction to Act III, "Dance of the Apprentices," from "Die Meistersinger," Wagner 10. Waltz, "Les Patineurs," Waldteufel 11. Selection, "Babes in Toyland," Herbert 12. Schlaraffen, March, Kempster
...available, two hundred students trying to get at them--this is a common experience of every man who has tried to do his work faithfully, without going to the expense of buying a volume that in all probability he will never be called on to open again. Our instructors tell us to do our work systematically, to "come early and avoid the rush." Would that it were possible...
...until close to the finish. At the mile post the University crew seemed to have recovered from the surprise of the start, and did its best work of the day, rowing easily and spacing well. At the last quarter mile mark the hard work and high stroke began to tell heavily on the Navy crew, and the lead gradually decreased. A short distance from the finish the University crew pulled up and swept by the mark with a lead of half a length...
...know of what I speak. This is due to a variety of causes, the chief of which is the egotism of the human animal itself. But I can tell you for your comfort that the chief cure for it is to interest yourself, to lose yourself, in some issue not personal to yourself--in another man's trouble or, preferably, another man's joy. But if the dark hour does not vanish, as sometimes it doesn't; if the black cloud will not lift, as sometimes it will not; let me tell you again for your comfort that there...