Word: tells
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dispatch from Hanover, N. H., says: The suspended sophomores still refuse to tell the faculty where they were on the night of the 17th. The faculty remain firm. Early on Sunday morning the village was aroused by a tremendous explosion. Some hurried to the bank, but found everything right there. An explanation was furnished when daylight came. A large cannon which the students had drawn from West Lebanon, a distance of four miles, during the night, was standing near Reed Hall. On Sunday evening it was taken home by the authorities, but before morning found its way here again...
...with the names of Lincoln and Sumner. I am old enough to wish that I was younger. In the course of my life I have picked up one or two observations. I have noticed that whenever a big newspaper thinks it worth while to spend half a column to tell a man that he is of no account, he may be sure that he counts for his full share; and he may fairly believe that he has reached a certain altitude when it is worth half a column to try to put him down. I do not doubt that...
...class can get them down on paper. Some distinction should be made between important and unimportant matter. For instance, today I tried to get down a lengthy explanation and had just about finished it when the prof. remarked that it was of no importance whatever. Why couldn't he tell a fellow before he started out on it? A professor should consider whether he knows more about the subject and can present it in a better way than the best text-books...
...here expressed. A poor, common-place mortal would have supposed those hackmen were rubbing their hands to keep warm, but the poetic soul of this Yale editor saw that the motion displayed "glee as the lucre rolled in." Just where or into what the lucre rolled he neglects to tell...
...Time will tell," says the News, impressively, "whether Harvard or Yale is to furnish the first practical demonstration of the fact that her dormitories are death traps...