Word: telling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...captain of a 'varsity team said to me not long ago: "This makes me tired; men come to me after the season is over, and tell me they knew-and-were not training. Why didn't they tell me when it might have done some good? Now I get the blame when I knew nothing of the fact." I hope Harvard men will learn to discriminate between "hard work" and "lax-training;" the latter is to be feared, the former is to be desired...
...stands ready to help us, that we may be strengthened and comforted by his aid, and that we have a guide close by us to make light the steps of our way. When a man does have this feeling of God's ever-present helpfulness, however, he must needs tell the world of it; he cannot conceal this new-born joy which has come to him. It descends like a revelation upon him that this feeling which he has is Christ and his enlightening presence. He has seen the Son and therefore by the words of the text...
...Name Forgotten" is, as far as the plot of the story goes, good. It is interesting, and not prententions. The same cannot be said of the introductory remarks and incidents which lead the narrator to tell his story." The introduction is fully as long as the story itself, and henoe grows wearisome. Moreover the style of the introduction is not at all in harmony with the style of the story; it is heavy, dull, and florid...
...well enough trained. Why are they not well enough trained? Because they have no capable trainers. Why have they no capable trainers? Because their graduate experts are not disposed to give the benefit of their experience. Why so? Because the average Harvard undergraduate knows it all. You can't tell him anything. That is one reason why Harvard...