Word: tells
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college is a social institution. It is right that it should be so. It gives a charm and usefulness. You make here a new home, new friends, new social and personal life and lay foundations for friendships in after life ; friendships which if you ask old graduates they will tell you are the best they have ever formed. Here your standards are moulded and fixed by which you decide a good fellow or a bad fellow and if you remain here through the course you will find much pleasure and enjoyment...
...quit playing professionally about 1874 his work was gradually forgotten and Matthews given all the credit for the innovation. The reason for the curve is something that professional players have never troubled themselves about, and though Matthews and Coleman, and, in fact, any of them, can tell exactly how a ball will go if it leaves the hand in a certain way, with a certain amount of force, why or how it does it they decline to explain. Yyng, of the New York Stock Exchange nine, or the Staten Island nine, as they now call it, is more ready with...
...Tell where fairies hid are lying...
...tell him you can't afford to buy any. No matter, don't think about money, any time will do. No you don't want to charge it. Very well, he will take any old clothes that you have. It is only by the use of the strongest possible terms, and the plainest language that he can be induced to take his leave...
...From the time I left Oxford I have made it a religion so far as I could, never to let a day pass without reading some Latin and Greek, and I can tell you that so far as my course may be deemed a successful one, I deliberately assert, maintain and believe that what little screens has been granted to me in life has been materially aided by the constant study of the classics, which it has been my delight and privilege all my life to persevere in." [Lord Coleridge's address at Yale...