Word: tour
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...immediate action in the Crimson ranks. I will say, by way of parenthesis, that this Advocate news was "given away" by an indiscreet member of that board, who was severely reprimanded by his colleagues at the next meeting. Well, the lot fell upon me to start on a subscription-tour that very night, and off I went with a large notebook, a buoyant step, and a light heart...
MONSIEUR RANDOLF: Est-ce-que j'aurai le tresgrand plaisir de vous accompagner Samedi prochain d'aller faire tour a la campagne pour tuer des oiseaux...
...tour of the Foot-ball Team has called forth a very sensible suggestion which will be found under the head of Correspondence. The writer referred to asks why those who go to New York and to other places at vacation do not, by reason of their numbers, obtain reduced rates from the railroads. It seems to us that this is a proposal both seasonable and practicable. In a few weeks the annual Thanksgiving migration will begin, and many, we are sure, would be glad to avail themselves of excursion tickets such as those lately used by the Fifteen. If such...
...affection, - and by the same intuitive wisdom that induced him to insist on my taking hard electives during my college course, has booked my name on the list of the respectable and cultivated people that compose the Woodruff Scientific Expedition, and has come to the sagacious conclusion that a tour round the world will do me as much good as the degree I lost last June...
...CURTIS'S journal is eminently what it pretends to be, - a simple account of what a man just from college noticed and experienced in a rapid tour around the world. The book is naturally valuable only to those who have never travelled; for the author kept steadily in the beaten track of tourists, and describes more his own impressions of what he saw, than the places and objects themselves. It makes, however, an interesting volume, written generally in a lively and entertaining style. The fault in the style seems to us the constant use of the present tense, which...