Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Isle, though it views Miami's skyscrapers across Biscayne Bay, is as secluded as any nest that a pirate ever made for himself on Bimimi or the Dry Tortugas. The late Henry M. Flagler, founder of Florida's perpetual youth, was not the first modern tycoon to visit the Southeast and his railroad and hotels meant more to the commonalty than to Mr. Flagler's fellow rich men. The real pioneers of Tycoon's Coast were the group that formed the Jekyl Island Club in 1886, some 200 families, including Morgans, Goulds, Rockefellers, Drexels. Carnegies. John...
Raleigh, North Carolina, is the first stop on his this year's itinerary. He will visit the local high school there and speak before a dinner of Harvard men. January 22 will find him at Charleston, South Carolina, where he will talk at the high schools and the City College. He will be in Savannah the next two days, from where he will go to Atlanta, speaking at a Harvard Club meeting there...
Returning north Mr. Pennypacker will spend two days in Richmond, visiting the high schools and the City College and attending another Harvard Club meeting. On February 3 he will visit the Tome School at Port Deposit...
...England. Wood Eaton, sleeping beside a little stream that winds in and out of coppices and fields; and going farther in this direction one comes to Islip, Noke, the grand sweep of Otmoor, and the leafy vale of the Thame. Going north from Oxford, one can visit Woodstock and stately Blenheim; or, if one is awed by this great place, one can turn a little to the west to the pretty villages and rich hills and vales watered by the Evenlode. Following the winding roads and hedges, now crossing streams, now going through woods, seeing here a country house, there...
Each city tried to outdo the others in hospitality. Rochester was the first city on the itinerary. The Clubs arrived there at 11 o'clock the morning of December 26. A Harvard Club luncheon at the Sagamore Hotel was followed by a short visit to the Eastman Kodak plant. A tea dance at a private home occupied the members the rest of the afternoon until they split to attend three different dinners given in their honor before the concert at the Community Players' Theatre. A full appreciative house applauded the performance, honors going to J. S. B. Archer '30, soloist...