Word: tells
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...four-oared crews help to enliven the afternoon at the boat house; much rivalry exists between them, and it is difficult to tell which is ahead in form...
What man can tell the potent spell...
...most unkindest cut" of all is to tell us that the faculty oppose a fence because they believe the students oppose it. To do a thing distasteful to us and then excuse it by claiming that we wish it, is a little too much. Student nature can bear no more. This idea overpowers us so that we are unable to touch upon the other argument - the "aesthetic" argument as the HERALD calls...
...wishes as law upon his colleagues as against their own judgments and that, in point of fact, the responsibility for those innovations which have most grieved the Era and its disinterested exchanges rests upon the faculty at large and not especially upon him." What those innovations are, I may tell you in a future letter...
...present time, it would seem that chances favor Princeton and Brown. Amherst does not expect to win the championship but hopes to make a good showing. Yale's chances would seem to be poorer than last year, though it is of course too early to tell with any degree of certainty. The feeling at all the colleges seems to be that expressed by our Brown correspondent, "We cannot prophecy but we can hope...