Word: visited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Students at the University of Virginia are wont to visit the grave of Jefferson and pledge in burning draughts of mountain whiskey the memory of that departed patriot. The removal of his remains would be a blow to the educational interests of the State...
Lieut. J. W. Danenhower paid an official visit to the Navy Department yesterday, reporting his return home and presenting a detailed account of his expenditures for audit. He also brought the log-book of the Jeannette, Capt. DeLong's broken rifle and articles found in caches by Engineer Melville in his search for De Long...
...quietly pursuing its daily task without drawing much attention. Now that athletics seem virtually over for this season, and every one is settling down to work upon his annuals, we are too apt to become forgetful of the men who are to represent the crimson at New London. To visit the boat-house and see the crew push off is truly not very edifying, but every attention shown them is a slight incentive to greater effort. We have not the means of going as far in the demonstration of our support as we could wish, but that is no argument...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Aroused by an article in the last Advocate, we determined to see Memorial Tower. Thursday we visited it, and shall not soon forget its beauties, nor its coal-gas, either. By the kindness of the "warden of the tower" we were allowed to pass through the forbidden door "into the loft." This abounds in unfinished woodwork and undisturbed dust. Through the middle runs the picturesque ventilator, which might be converted into an elevator for passengers to the tower (two cents a trip). After much climbing we reach the balcony (where the pigeon holes are), and here...
...Glee Club. But two concerts are given annually, one in the fall and one in the spring, which together with the informal concerts in the yard, are the only opportunities within our reach for showing our appreciation of the Glee Club's work. They are said occasionally to visit neighboring town in conjunction with the Pierian Sodality to give concerts, but never sing in Boston or other places accessible to the mass of students. At other colleges the glee clubs are frequently heard, and give several concerts at least a year, besides making extended trips from city to city. Thus...