Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...pleasantness anecdote and the newest which Mr. Wister has set before his readers is that of the visit of Jeremiah Smith to Mount Vernon and the kindly hospitality with which Washington received him, and, when the time for retiring came, escorted him to his room, pointed to the blazing fire with the reassuring remark that it was the perfectly safe and bade his guest good-night with the permission to keep his light burning until morning if he wished. Mr. Smith notes the awe with which the master of Mount Vernon impressed him, but Mr. Wister explains that this...
...paid court to her and still presses his attentions upon her. By threatening to "invite the Colonel," she silences her husband whenever he seeks to prove his masculine superiority. Colonel Bernard, in the meantime, has become engaged and comes to Paris to celebrate his wedding. On his coming to visit Carbonnel, Elisa, the latter's wife, pretends to carry on a flirtation with him, but her husband, learning of the Colonel's intended marriage, threatens to expose the use which she has made of the Colonel's mane, and thus regains the keys. The plays ends with the discomfiture...
Century--"New Photographs of Mars," by P. Lowell '76; "Visit of Nicodemus to Christ," by J. La Farge...
Professor Clifford H. Moore will lecture in Harvard 1 this evening at 8 o'clock on "Ancient Rome." The lecture is designed to describe, with the aid of about 50 stereopticon slides, the monuments and remains which would most interest the traveller on his first visit to Rome...
...will of Mrs. Sarah E. Potter of Boston, for some years a helpful member of the Committee to Visit the Gray Herbarium, the University received in June, 1907, a bequest of $50,000 to be used and applied in connection with the Gray Herbarium, and to be called the Sarah E. Potter Endowment Fund. As one of a number of residuary legatees, the University has subsequently received from the executors, Hon. James R. Dunbar and Mr. George R. White '36 (also a member of the Visiting Committee), an addition to this endowment, consisting of cash and securities of an estimated...