Word: travels
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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THOSE who attended the performances of Modjeska when she was here, a short time ago, will doubtless remember reading on their programmes an account of the palace car in which this gifted artist and her company travel. The most glowing descriptions of the Arabian Nights pale before it. Even the Prince of the Black Isles, who had so many charming young ladies devoted to him, never enjoyed the luxury of hanging up his clothes on a silver-plated hook, nor are we told that Aladdin's famous lamp was nickel-plated. The movements of genius are at all times interesting...
CAMBRIDGE bridge is to be closed to team travel in order that it may be replanked...
...Commissioners for the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge are thinking of establishing studentships, the holders of which shall engage to travel to Italy, Greece, or the Levant, and there devote themselves especially to the investigation of the local classical antiquities...
Granting that the "Harvard Arion Quartette," or the "Arion Quartette of Harvard Students," did not travel through New England on the productive capital of the name of Harvard; granting that it was a mistake to call attention to this rival society; and granting that your paper was unjust in censuring them, - concessions which not every one will be ready to grant, - it must still be conceded that there is something questionable in the conduct of men who, having the balance of power in their hands, insist on the resignation of two members - to them personally unpopular - because one was once...
...best rowing in American colleges. It is only fair, then, that we should row with the champion college crew, and, in case we are successful, with other colleges that are willing to race in eights. On the other hand, it is neither fair nor reasonable that we should travel all over the Western and Middle States for the sake of meeting a rival. New London is the place for these races, not Owasco Lake nor Harlem River. If Columbia and Cornell are determined to row over their favorite courses, the College will certainly decline accepting such conditions, which would seriously...