Word: visited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...author describes the various special collections and concludes: "By a mere hasty visit to the exhibition-rooms no one will get an idea of the magnificence of the Museum of comparative zoology. Neither the building, nor the rooms inside, nor the exhibited objects, will make an especially imposing impression. But the strong point of this institution lies in the poculiar arrangement of the collection for the public, and in the strict separation of the large material for scientific investigations. By the constant development of science, by the improved accessibility of distant continents and islands, by the investigations of the depths...
Members of N. H. 1 will visit the Boston Signal Service office today, accompanied by Mr. Davis...
...Among the entries is the following: The Medical College in Mason street is a neat brick structure, crowned by a skylight, and is an appendage to the university, the funds of which contributed $20,000 towards its erection. Invited by Dr. Jackson. I devoted a few hours to a visit there, passing in review the library room, lecture room, demonstration room, chemical room, dissecting room, bones room, mineral cabinet, etc., etc. A folio volume and plates of the bones, in the library, which is a present from Mr. Vaughan, is considered of great value, not only for its exactness...
...Holmes and the Medical Students. It says: "The most popular man in the Cedical School is Dr. Oliver wendell Holmes, though he is no longer an active member of the faculty. The genial "autocrat" cannot stand entirely aloof from his first love, and almost every month he pays a visit to the doctor mill on the Back Bay. Some of the younger professors think that Dr. Holmes is pretty far behind the times-"an old fogy, you know" but the boys have no thought for them when the old doctor comes in sight, trying to steal unseen through some open...
...banker of this city, has a bit of history contected with it, says the Concord (N. H.) Monitor. He was a Jew, and much wonder has been expressed that he should remember the New England College. A few years ago the Rev. Henry E. Parker, D. D., of Dartmouth, visited Bermuda, and while there met Mr. Hallgarten. The New Yorker was favorably impressed with his new acquaintance, and their intimacy was continued by a visit from the banker at Professor Parker's beautiful Hanover home. Out of this friendship and admiration for one of the college's most popular professors...