Word: visite
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...while the feet and head are the booty of those coming up afterwards. The hunt was completed by a dinner on the return to the house, but the lack of time forced us to leave a merry feast. Not only at the hunt, but during the entire visit of the Eleven at Montreal, the McGill Club were most courteous and hospitable, and it is to be hoped that they may be as cordially received next spring as the Harvard Eleven were this fall...
...College Argus raises the old cry of "Too much Work," which is echoed just now by every College in the country. A youth in this paper must have been doing a vast amount of "general reading" the last winter, for in a short account of a visit to the Packer Institute he has introduced quotations from Virgil, Moore, Mother Goose, Tennyson, Milton, Shakespeare, and St. Paul...
...Cricket Eleven will play a game with the Albions of Boston, next Saturday, on the East Cambridge grounds; wickets pitched at half past ten. The McGill cricketers could not make us a visit on account of the backward state of the season in Canada, precluding all practice; and also because the term of the Medical School, to which the best players belonged, has already closed, and the men have disbanded...
...England it is expected that many minor changes will be introduced in the College, and, perhaps, several of greater moment. These novelties will be modelled, it is to be presumed, on the present systems in vogue at Oxford and at Cambridge, as the chief object of the President's visit to England was to study these systems. To those of us who are of conservative proclivities, the expectation of any changes whatever is, to say the least, disquieting; but when the new regulations are to be copied from the English systems, the prospect is decidedly darkened...
...when they are on their native heath, they cannot but do likewise if transplanted to a new soil. It must seem strange to a disinterested person that a dying system should be the subject of study; such a person would certainly say that the object of the President's visit might better have been termed the study, not of the system of instruction and general management at the English Universities, but rather of their methods of reform...