Word: tell
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...scope to the character of the student. The aim was to foster the desire for learning. In the old country a man might almost be said to know before he was born what profession he was to follow. In this country a man on his death-bed could hardly tell what profession he had followed. Harvard was democratic in its methods. It cultivated the spontaneity of its students. The rich and poor stood together without discrimination, and among the most popular men in every class were some who worked their way through...
...largely determined by examinations and the professor's personal estimate of the man's work. The marks given at the end of each term are expressed, not in number, but by certain adjectives as very high, low, medium, etc. These correspond to fixed grades, so that one can tell approximately his numerical work as very high means nine-tenths on a scale of ten. For the awarding of prize scholarships the class average for the year is considered alone. To decide about prizes usually special examinations are held, involving extra work. or special examinations may be held without assigning additional...
...member of the Cambridge police tells a story on the proctors of twenty years (or less) ago. At that time, on the celebration of a certain holiday, the faculty got wind of a good time intended by the inmates of one of the dormitories, and fearing the proctor of the building would not be able to stop the revelry if it became too hilarious, secretly stationed two policemen near the room occupied by the students. The officers, however, as well as the faculty afterward, were somewhat astonished to discover the proctor on guard disappear every few minutes into the scene...
...gloves, often with the addition of brass knuckles. The wrestling was correspondingly rough, and, in regard to the running, we have often heard of the men who dropped dead at the end of their race. The Greeks used to run at an alarming speed. As far as we can tell from the records, they made their longest run, three miles, in about ten minutes, and they were accustomed to make a running jump, with dumb-bells, off a spring board of between forty and fifty feet. Possibly such deeds might kill...
BOSTON THEATRE. - Her Majesty's Opera Company in "William Tell...