Word: travelitis
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...event in the outside world could more nearly affect our community than the terrible ocean disaster just reported from the other side, where the survivors from the "Ville du Havre" have arrived to tell their sad story. European travel has become of late so common that the first-class steamers on all the lines rarely sail without a full complement of passengers, including America's best and most respected citizens. Such is the regularity of our steamship communication with Europe that the formerly much-dreaded dangers of the sea are almost overlooked, till some such accident as the present warns...
...PROFESSOR in the Cornell University (a graduate of Harvard) is going abroad, in an official position, accompanied by his wife, in December. Any gentleman who would like to intrust a son to such care, for study and travel, will please address, "Professor," Drawer 29, Ithaca, N. Y. References: Hon. J. M. Francis, Minister to Greece, Professors Peabody and Gurney, Cambridge, Mass., President A. D. White, Cornell University, Professor A. L. Wheeler, Yale College, Professor H. L. Eddy, Princeton...
...seems to be a prevailing opinion among the express. men and teamsters of Cambridge, that the short-cuts through the Yard are thoroughfares of travel kept open for their especial convenience. This mistaken idea causes much annoyance, especially to classes reciting in University...
...travel loosely round and make stump speeches...
...editor of any kind will be satisfied till he receives an invitation; so let it embrace all those of any race, color, or sex who can drive a quill. Then will the glory of the projectors be consummated. The distance to St. Louis is no objection. All would willingly travel twelve or fifteen hundred miles for such a treat, though the city is only about two hundred from the college proposing it. But is it central enough? There are colleges as large as some of our Western institutions in Turkey and the Sandwich Islands, and where there is a college...