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Word: tells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Memorial Society should lay a foundation for the Memorial Days to come, by instituting an actual Roll of Honor of the Harvard dead who will always be remembered. This list of seventy names will grow steadily and more and more rapidly. Fifty years from now our sons will tell their sons that on May 30 the United States pays tribute to the men who fought for their country in the Civil War and for the world in the Great...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ROLL OF HONOR | 5/29/1918 | See Source »

...disgruntled graduate, writing in The Forum some years ago, distinguished the Lampoon as the only paper in the University which wasn't afraid to tell the truth. His statement was a rank libel, but it has its germs of fact. One reads the CRIMSON to read about local events, and the Illustrated to see pictures of them; the Advocate is a sample of what the undergraduates are writing. But if one is hunting for the quintessence of the University, the thrice-distilled spirit, the punch, as it were; at present as in the past, one goes to the Lampoon...

Author: By Malcolm COWLEY ., | Title: Current Lampy Shows No Mercy | 5/28/1918 | See Source »

...best able to tell the truth is he most willing to face the truth--especially disagreeable truths about himself or the community he lives in. How can we correct errors if we will not even acknowledge them, or how can we acknowledge them if we will not even look at them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 5/13/1918 | See Source »

...been made by the Division of Fine Arts and of Music that Miss Ratan Devi will deliver a recital of Indian Music at the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, on Monday evening, May 13, at 8.15 o'clock. Miss Devi will be introduced by Dr. Ananda Coomaraswamy, who will tell of the history of music in India...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ratan Devi to Give Recital | 5/11/1918 | See Source »

...salute, he says, arose from the custom of raising the visor when two knights in armor met, by way of recognizing friend from foe. Otherwise, it would be like trying to tell men apart when they are wearing gas-masks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 5/1/1918 | See Source »

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