Word: tell
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tell me, and then I'll be there...
First freshman (after Harvard's victory over Wesleyan): "Say, old man, I feel too big for this college to hold me." Second freshman, "For heaven's sake don't tell anybody." Fact...
Freshman, (to upper class man): "Will you please tell me what this building is used for?" (pointing to Gore Hall). Upper class man, "Can't you imagine from the style of architecture?" Freshman, "Oh, it's the college greenhouse...
...fall is very bright. Of course it may be as yet a little early to make any predictions but we have already seen the candidates for the team at practice regularly for over two weeks, as well as in their game with Wesleyan and we are certainly able to tell pretty well what the material on hand will amount to. Although so few of our old men remain, there are plenty of new men ready and anxious to fill the vacancies, and moreover there is more than usual enthusiasm manifested by the college at large in the work...
...newspaper says Boston has a colored man named Yale College. When he shall have a large family, imagine Mrs. College standing on the front porch and yelling to her offspring : "Now, see heah, Dartmouf, how many times mus' yo' po' mudder tell you to frow dat badeball 'way an' stay in de house an' larn your A, B, C's? Cornell, quit dabblin' in dat watah, an' come heah dis instant. An' you, Vassar, yo' de worse nigger in de pack. Take dat chewin' gum out ob yo' mouf, or I'll choke yo, till yo're brack...