Word: tales
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Chaucer Readings. The Prioresses Tale. Professor Briggs. Sever...
Chaucer Readings. The Prioresses Tale. Professor Briggs. Sever...
...ideas are easy of comprehension. If they could be read and digested by all college men, the next generation will find fewer educated men in want. The number of men to-day, who, with all the training of a university routine, could yet, if they chose, recite a tale of dreary hope against hope, is too large. Mr. Rawle evidently laments this fact, and his address, if appreciated, is certainly calculated to be of material benefit to the college-bred men of the future...
...went away. The next day found me in a line of some thirty fellow-mortals, waiting to reach the desk. When I arrived there, wearied, exhausted and hungry, my slip was returned to me with the word "out" written in bloody letters upon it. This is a true tale of how things are managed in a library which contains more than 500,000 volumes. No order, no catalogue, excepting volume upon volume of written memoranda which in themselves cover many shelves, opens a way for the student to so much wisdom. Nobody seems to know where to look...
...rowing. As this has been done so lately in the year their chances of winning the race have been materially lessened, as any change in the make up of a crew is unfortunate at such a time," etc., etc. Now it seems as if we had heard a tale very similar to this before; the great foot-ball eleven last year which only succumbed to Princeton after a hard struggle, was declared to be "incompetent," "slothful," and "reluctant to play with any snap," etc., etc. Their last year's crew was decried in just the same...