Word: visite
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...visit to a New Hampshire village gave me the coveted opportunity, and I and my suspicions of this antidote for care were awakened one morning at five A. M. Remembering that, according to old Izaak, a rosy dairy-maid was to refresh me at noon with new milk, I put on my white flannel suit with some care and started off. My journey to the brook was a modern Anabasis, - ???, - "just three miles" did that brook keep ahead of me throughout the fifteen I walked. I learned this from passing countrymen, and argument and expostulation failed to shorten the distance...
...somebody else will have to cultivate mine considerably before I again allow it to make of me a walking clothes-line and unabridged dictionary of profanity combined. Simple Simon was a young Solomon when he chose his mother's pail for his fish-pond. The rest of my visit was more pleasantly devoted to the hammock, the pretty daughter, and the sketch of a new Inferno in which old Izaak Walton is to figure conspicuously...
...American Library Association will visit the University on the afternoon of July 2 By invitation of the President and Fellows of the College, the members will take tea in Memorial Hall before returning to Boston...
When you return to Cambridge in the autumn there are several places at which you will do well to present yourselves. In the first place you should visit the Chapel, although there may be no service going on, and although you may have a few other opportunities of viewing its interior (decorated by Mr. MacPherson). A few moments' meditation there will calm, soothe, and prepare you for the ordeal which must immediately follow. If the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals has not left the key, where he generally keeps it, under the mat, you may obtain it from the Professor...
...Freshman race with Columbia is off. Last Saturday the Captain of '82 received an official visit from Messrs. Parsons and Webb of Columbia, the latter being Captain of the Columbia Freshmen. They informed Captain Bartlett that out of the four eight-oared crews in training they had but seven men left, and, therefore, could not possibly row the race. It was suggested that the vacancy in the boat should be filled by a University oar, but this did not meet the approval of the Columbia delegates; the crews have therefore disbanded...