Word: tell
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will tell you plainly, I will do all I can for you in every way. I can get your board, tuition, ete., free. The athletic men at Princeton get by all odds the best treatment in any of the colleges...
...DEAR MR. STICKNEY:-Was very glad to get your letter. I was away on our spring baseball trip, or your letter would have received a prompt reply. As to your coming down here I will tell you plainly, I will do all I can for you in every way, if you really wish to come. I can get your board, tuition, etc., free. The athletic men at Princeton get by all odds the best treatment in any of the colleges. I would like to talk it over with you personally. If you will accept an invitation from me to come...
...influential member of the Harvard nine was in town yesterday and today endeavoring to get Ammerman to leave Pennsylvania and enter Harvard. He offered to have Ammerman's tuition and board at Harvard paid and give him a cash bonus besides. He even went so far as to tell Ammerman that there was a ticket to Boston waiting for him at the Pennsylvania railroad station. Ammerman refused his offer and said he went to Pennsylvania on his own account and would go to no institution on other terms...
...report is not true will you please send me a denial; if true will you kindly give me full particulars of the proposition made you, and tell me by whom it was made, whether a member of the Harvard nine, or some one acting on their authority...
...printed in the CRIMSON. But many good men hesitate about offering themselves; some, through modesty, others through indifference; I have heard men say even in November "they thought the crew had been chosen;" some have an idea that assessments are levied on the candidates to pay expenses. Will you tell these men that it will cost them nothing but an hour's labor each day; that in order to find out who are the best men we must try them all? Even if some men fail to get a seat in the boat they will have made the successful candidates...