Word: tells
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Eliot is willing to give the students the benefit of his advice in regard to their choice of studies and the best method of carrying on their work while in college. Could he not be induced to continue his good counsel in a lecture to the senior class, and tell the members of that body how to solve the most difficult of all problems - choosing a profession...
Although many things may be said in favor of the recitation system of treating courses; that it gives students a chance to express themselves, to tell what they know and keeps them from being mere passive agents in the class room; yet are there not many advantages more desirable than these which the talk of the Professor only can give? It surely seems plausible that for three hours each week he can give more information to the men in any course than they can ever obtain by hearing some of their own number repeat in a more crude...
...light of an international contest, yet it will prove unusually interesting, and will afford the college a chance to be present at a game of lacrosse "as is lacrosse." Naturally enough the probabilities are that the Montreal men will score a victory, for their summer practice cannot fail to tell against the three months of inaction through which our team has passed. The recent work of the college players has, however, been so effective that they may fairly be expected to exhibit something of the snap and energy which characterized their work as a team last season. In recognition...
...detail, that fair and accurate criticism of style has been rendered possible. Of course, in the case of the class crews, such trouble is scarcely worth the while, but it seems to us that the university might profit to no small extent by acting on the suggestion. Who can tell how far an expedient of this sort might help us in winning a victory...
...sent in to the Intercollegiate Convention and no further steps will be taken to revive the game. So all who care for the continuance of the game must give it the support of their presence at the meeting, as that is the only way in which the management can tell the general feeling of the college in the matter...