Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...See those poor shipwrecked fools, who weakly...
...will add greatly to the appearance of both buildings and yard, if students rooming on the Yard will see that their rooms, including bedrooms, are illuminated Class-Day evening...
...usual courtesies were shown to the loyalist governor. An indication of Harvard's opinions and spirit at this time is seen on the occasion of one of her public dinners, at which John Hancock was invited to a seat with the Governors of the College; and, again, we see the same man elected Treasurer of the College in 1773. All this time republican principles and patriotic ideas were gaining the control of students as well as instructors...
...reception by '78 of Yale was most cordial, and during our whole visit they showed us the utmost attention. On our departure nearly the whole class came to the station to see us off, giving us many rounds of cheers and college songs. We should like, here, to thank them most heartily for their kindness and cordiality, and we hope the good feeling which now seems to exist may continue, and also be followed by other classes and the two colleges...
...almost say, to every corner of the world. If we could obtain a leaf from the mental note-book of each man, we might form a cosmopolitan scrap-book of experience that would be amusing, not to say instructive. O for a telescope of unlimited power, to see our friends of the midnight oil "clothed in purple and fine linen," displaying their charms of face and figure at Swampscott or Newport, looking wise if any allusion chance to be made to the creatures of the " deep blue sea" or to the idealist theory of Berkeley, showing themselves wise by saying...