Word: toured
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...brought them about. Before 1887-88 the restrictions upon the personal liberty of a student amounted to very little. He was nominally obliged to attend recitations, but so little was the rule regarded that it was the custom for a party of no small number to take an extended tour during the winter term. Athletics were not under control. Athletic organizations might leave Cambridge at will, and men who had very little standing in their class might represent the University on athletic teams. The result was that Harvard was looked upon as a place where a very loose government...
...spent in Germany, at the University of Gottingen, where, in 1820, he received the degree of Ph. D. He then repaired to the University of Berlin, in order to prosecute various other courses of study. He made a specialty of history, although preparing for the ministry. After an extended tour of Europe the young traveller returned to America and soon abandoned the idea of following his father's profession. It was then that he first thought of writing a history of the United States...
President Dwight of Yale is making a tour through the western cities...
...were treated magnificently wherever they went, and whatever misgivings the faculty may have had concerning the effect of a tour like this, they will certainly be removed when they hear of the enthasiasm for Harvard that the clubs are used among our graduates, and in the various cities visited...
...hoped that in the future the clubs will again make their Christmas tour to the West, and keep alive the love of Harvard's graduates for their Alma Mater. The following is a condensed account of the trip...