Word: tell
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...many of us earnestly desire to know of the world's progress, and in order to do so take one or more courses in history. These courses tell us how the world once moved, but changes are so frequent and so rapid that while we may have a good knowledge of the events of a hundred years ago, that knowledge helps us but little in understanding the occurrences of to-day. What seems to be needed, then, as a supplement to the history courses now offered is a course in present constitutional history, - a course which shall teach the different...
This matter of theatricals, which you have suggested, is a very good example of what I mean. You find your friends interested in something that bores you. It would be unwise to tell them that they are fools, for, in the first place, at their period of life that is a foregone conclusion, and in the second place, two can play at that game. Neither would it be wise to retire to your own room in disgust, for man is a gregarious mammal, and you are a man. Nor yet ought you to look as gloomy as a funeral...
Perhaps I am sentimental, but I like, too, after an evening spent in company with the fair sex, to compare notes before the glowing coals, and, while composing myself for sleep, to tell, or hear told, an incident or two as to what "he said" and "she did." And often the pleasantest memories of college life are these hours spent with gas turned down, - hours filled with words that can only pass between friends that have played and worked together, for only to such do we like to unbosom ourselves of plans for play and work in the future...
...this sentiment in regard to work I ascribe what truth there may be in the opinion which I have quoted. To say that the sentiment ought to be corrected would be a mere truism. Of this we may be sure, that in the long run hard work will tell against liberal advantages. Harvard men are now judged in the outside world by their catalogue and list of electives; and their agreeable manners serve to heighten the favorable impression. But in time the artificiality and unfitness for real life of most Harvard men will be discovered...
...recherche labels in the world; and his mantel-piece was covered with autograph portraits of the leading theatrical celebrities of the day. But with all this magnificence, Smith knew absolutely nothing. His tailor sent him his clothes, and he hardly knew how they were cut. He could n't tell the difference between cider and champagne, - much less between a real Havana and a domestic descendant of old sogers. He positively was not sure whether Signora Murfini of the Howard Athenaeum was really an Italian, or only a runaway daughter of old Murphy, the Irish tailor. He measured everything...