Word: visited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have been placed in position, and fastened to the walls are the weights. Although everything is very simple and unpretentious when compared to our large and well equipped rowing room, the work accomplished in the New York gymnasium is not inferior to that done by the Harvard freshmen. A visit to Wood's gymnasium is only required in order to see with what will and determination the Columbia freshman handle the oars; they have been defeated so many times by Harvard, that this year they are making extraordinary efforts to wrest victory from her. They are at present rowing eighteen...
...annual rumor to the effect that a detachment of Cambridge police, accompanied by a member of the faculty, is shortly to visit all rooms in the yard, in quest of contraband signs, is again afloat. Now as a visit from one of the faculty is always a very agreeable affair, few men would be so devoid of sense as not to appreciate the honor which may be thus thrust upon them. But, as for the Cambridge police, we think we may be pardoned, if, under the circumstances, we decline their society. Although a member of the faculty may enter...
...college would be conferring a great benefit to the students at no expense to itself. In addition, the college would then have it in its power to light the library without the fear of fire, thus granting an inestimable boon to the many hard working students who can only visit it during the day time. After having gone through the subject in its details, I will now present it in a tubular form, so that the situation may easily be grasped by everyone...
Under this title, a recent magazine article gives an account of a visit to that beautiful suburb of London, Harrow, and also of its famous preparatory school. Harrow and Eton are the two great English preparatory schools, and are characterized, only to a lesser extent, by the same rivalry and spirit of contention that the great universities of Cambridge and of Oxford display towards each other. Harrow is among schools a venerable patriarch, being founded in 1571, but still is obliged to assume the humble position of younger brother with reference to Eton, which came into existence about one hundred...
...Harrow that Lord Byron prepared for college, and he has commemorated the beauties of the place and his love for it in several poems. A verse from a poem, on the occasion of a visit to Harrow in after years, illustrates somewhat amusingly his life there...