Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...many more with an insufficient supply of ink, so that several hundred worthy persons lost their chance of gaining an immortality by neglecting to pay enough attention to details. The first gentleman, however, who signed on the 2d of July, 1838, evidently appreciated the honor of being the "first visitor" to Harvard College, so that we can still read with pleasure that his name was Thomas, and that he came from near Dublin, Ireland. The details in this volume are often very curious. One married lady from Russia, with amiable reverence for truth, gives her maiden name in full. Something...
Probably the one place in college that impresses the visitor with the fact that the student does study and think and read is the library. And the department of the library of which this is especially true is the "Notes and Queries" system. There the particular study or theme in which each student is most interested is reflected in the questions written on the card. Rarely one of these questions is found that betrays any considerable ignorance in common things, but the following perhaps is an example of this class. One man wants to know "when and where originated...
...pile comes the Vassar Miscellany, which is always a welcome visitor. To be sure, it is, on the whole, rather heavy and unsatisfactory reading, but if one is judicious there is much to be found that is interesting. It seems strange that so little poetry appears in its columns; and we are forced to believe the editors discourage the would-be Brownings and Hemanses, though the one piece which appeared this fall was a very clever production. We would suggest an increase of "College Notes," and an attempt at typographical improvement...
...recent visitor to Williams College thus describes a recitation as conducted by the venerable Professor Mark Hopkins: "The class was one which had made a speciality of the study of the professor's book, entitled 'Outlines of the Study of Man.' The professor's method was as follows: He called one of the students by name and asked him what had been done at the recitation on the previous day. The student immediately rose and gave an interesting synopsis of the preceding lesson, and connected it with the present lesson, with the same spirit that he might have displayed...
...writer says: "Much has been done during the last few years to embellish Harvard University, both by private endowment and by co-operation among the classes which have graduated from the college. The Sanders Theatre, the Hemenway Gymnasium and the Memorial Hall, are all objects of interest to the visitor who is "doing" Cambridge. During the past summer an interesting feature has been added to Memorial Hall. The lack of interest in this shown by the public makes it evident that few are aware of the presence in this place of a very valuable and beautiful work...