Word: visite
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...their good-natured manner of taking their defeat, only served to promote the good feeling between Princeton and Harvard, and we take this occasion of offering, through these columns, our most hearty thanks to them for all their kindness. Let us all show them, at the time of their visit here, that Harvard cannot only appreciate kind treatment and gentlemanly conduct, but also knows well how to reciprocate...
MUCH has been said, and justly said, of the imposing appearance, the fine proportions, handsome interior decorations, and excellent appointments of the Memorial Dining-Hall. Many persons, residents of Cambridge and Boston and strangers from other towns, come every day to visit the Hall, and they doubtless go away well satisfied with what they have seen, and convinced of the truthfulness of the reports concerning it. The beauty of the Hall, moreover, is far from being unappreciated by those who are privileged to take their meals there, and all members of the College, past and present, are naturally proud...
...concludes that the influence of the stage is thoroughly pernicious. The article is excellent in its way; but if its author had shown some practical acquaintance with his subject, his arguments would have been more convincing; and if he proposes to pursue the matter further, we should suggest a visit to some locality where facilities for the observation of theatrical affairs are afforded. - An amusing attempt at epigram occurs in the same paper. Some youth, in the enthusiasm consequent upon introduction to the first principles of mechanics, has been struck with the idea that "human life is an effect...
...with unwashed hands, shakes into an appearance of order his tumbled bed. He remonstrates at first with her, but soon perceives, from her oaths, perhaps, that even a Goody has no respect for a Freshman; still he is comforted by the vain hope that he will soon receive a visit from that victim of a task too great for human powers, who is supposed to be able to superintend a force of twenty five or thirty shiftless, shirking women, who have to do their work in three hundred rooms. Even if he is ever visited, he finds a single complaint...
...Tremont Street, quite a number of that gentleman's friends, among them a delegation from the H H Society, of which Mr. Rich was an active member in "Ye olden time." The occasion of this assembly was a private reception given to his friends, that they might visit his art rooms (The Cluny). Mr. Rich has brought from France the art of bronzing plaster casts, and he had arranged in his rooms, with admirable taste, statues, busts, vases, etc., exhibiting the beauty of the preparation. The name Cluny is taken from the Paris house of that name, which...