Word: tells
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...which alone an university is made. Give them a chance to be human, and the undergraduate may find professors worthy of his friendship. Then when we have more money, we might equip our poverty stricken chairs with laboratories, theatres, libraries and all the other what-nois. Then, they tell us, their present progress would seem like marking time. Ask our men which they would rather have: endowments or high salaries. Get rid of the money-grubbers. Although we would then, by no means, be free from all the quacks that infest Cambridge, still in the company of those who would...
Japan has been glad to send us here. She desires us to become the true friends of the American students and to tell them of Japan. She believes that the students can become the real mediators between the two countries. Those of us who are attending Harvard have an opportunity to carry her message to the Americans, and on the other hand to talk to our people through the Japanese newspapers and magazines...
...full pleasure and profit from them which the alumni so generously provide for. As there is a great deal going on now in the college world, and as it is correspondingly difficult to bring worthy objects to people's notice, I hope that everyone will tell his neighbor about these expositions so that little by little the large and enthusiastic audiences of former days may be regained. These expositions are certainly one of the most unusual opportunities for Harvard students, and there should be no diffidence or lukewarmness in the way of appreciation on the part of the student body...
...these examples plainly indicate the absurdity of using words merely for the effect of their sounds. What applies in editorial writing applies in the every day college course. No matter whether it is in English composition or Greek translation, if one can tell his story in straight-forward language, instead of ranting about a "virulent obsession," one has a much better opportunity of gaining his instructor's good will...
Recently the editors of a well-known magazine compiled a list of college graduates who had made a notable success in the world. They asked these men to tell what studies had best trained them for future life. Stewart Edward White wrote in answer "What I studied in college I don't remember, but I do remember the men who taught...