Word: tells
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...find a friend without the least difficulty. We all know the trouble and vexation which a man has to undergo at present in searching for the room of an acquaintance. We on the lower floor especially are continually bored by requests from utter strangers "to have the kindness to tell me where I can find Mr. So-and-So." Of course we are civil enough to consult our index or catalogue and oblige the gentlemen, but we are bored none the less. But if the authorities would expend a few dollars on arrangements such as Felton is provided with...
...club, in the hope (which seems less and less attainable as the discussion goes on) that some of its advocates or opponents will kindly define that which they are advocating or condemning. "Y." gives reason against the formation of such a club; "W." reasons for such action; but neither tells us anything more than that the club would or would not accomplish one purpose - the bringing together of professors and students. Both write of the club as though it were something well known to them; but such is not the case with most of us. If there are similar clubs...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: I looked over, I cannot tell with how much satisfaction, the books that have been placed on the new cases in the reading room of the library. I was especially pleased to see the writings of Browning, Rossette, Morris, Swinburne and George Meredith, about which most of us know so very little, put where a student can not help laying his hand upon them...
...know anything or not. It is better to know less and be able to express it in the blue book than to know more, and be too muddled and tired to remember it. This working until breakfast with a wet towel around your head is very romantic when you tell it to your sympathizing lady friends, but it is of no use in actual practise. Finally don't study up to the last moment. Take a good breakfast then take a shave and a quiet smoke between 9 and 10 o'clock and then go into the examination room with...
...Wanderings of Alexis" are still going on, and the interesting part of them is that there is such a mixture of sense and nonsense in them, one can scarcely tell whether to go on reading or toss the paper away in disgust. In the last number the disgust won the battle. In this number the temptation is the same, but the piece is written in an easy style which has held the reader till...