Word: visited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hope the college authorities will take measures if possible to induce the great English poet and critic, now on a visit to this country to lecture before the students in Cambridge. Mr. Arnold has always had numberless admirers among Harvard men and has more than once in his writings expressed his high regard for this university. It would therefore be peculiarily appropriate that the college in some way should show him especialy honor...
...last number of The Lasell Leaves contains an account of the visit of some sixty Lasell students to Mt. Auburn and Harvard. After a description of the visit to Mt. Auburn closing with the quotation...
...should have enjoyed our visit to Harvard more completely if we had not had the uncomfortable sense of being very conspicuous. To be sure, a procession of sixty girls marching about among those solemn old buildings, is not an every-day sight; but when heads were thrust out of every window, and there were, unmistakably, audible signs of amusement, we wished that we were not altogether such a big, unwieldy body, that we might get speedily out of sight. Now, each student who watched us, if he had met us personally, would, we are sure, have had the manners...
...that the seniors sincerely appreciate the great privilege offered to them exclusively of inspecting the observatory of the college on certain specified evenings of this month. None of the various ceremonies which give indication of the near departure of a graduating class possess deeper significance than this one. The visit to the observatory may be regarded as the very crowning of the four-years' monument of study erected by every student of the college-as the final "finishing off," to use the phrase of the young ladies' seminary, of his college life. If the origin of the custom were investigated...
...opinion, for the purpose of having them bound over to keep the peace; also, he was about to order a coffin immediately, in which to keep the pieces when the machine went off. The student, when the man had got far enough along in his story to propose a visit to the nearest life insurance office, remarked that there was only one explanation for the curious phenomenon - his chum kept a dog which was in the habit of laying in the corner of the room, near the wall, and the wagging of his tail against the foot-board probably produced...