Word: visite
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Amherst Student is good, as it always is. The following stanza, taken from "An Ode" dedicated and presented to Daniel Pratt, on occasion of his recent visit to Amherst, shows that the students have profited by the teachings of that great philosopher...
...recitation, I heard some one coming up stairs, and presently a postal card was thrust under my door. Alas! as I had feared, it was an invitation to come to the Dean's daily reception. After perusing it for a few moments, I determined to put off my visit till the afternoon. At five o'clock, on arriving at the Dean's office, to my astonishment, I found no one there. There I was, all alone, in the Secretary's room, with but a threshold between me and the President's office, - the seat of those Faculty meetings, which...
...very best authority) that the rumors of his having gone to England for some purpose connected with the commons, connected with the professorship of Zoology, and with the method of conducting examinations, are unfounded; and it is asserted with the greatest confidence that the real object of his visit is to learn the English stroke...
...FRESHMAN had occasion to visit the cellar in the south entry of Weld a week or two ago. On attempting to return he met with an unexpected obstacle. He pushed against the door at the head of the stairs, and found that it refused to open. He felt for the knob, and attempted to turn it, but it merely slipped around without catching the latch. The horrible thought flashed upon him that the latch had broken and that he was locked up for the night. It was past eight o' clock on Saturday evening, and the passers-by were...
...winter, and ends in a climax by declaring, with evident pride, that the standard of admission at Cornell is as high as at Vale or Harvard. The Syracuse University Herald suggests, in reply, that the Times is suffering from the jaundice and blighted hopes, and earnestly advises a protracted visit at Dryden Springs Place (which is equal to Yale or Harvard). So far the Herald has the best of it, but a broadside may be expected from the next issue of the Times...