Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...many of the astonishing charges which were trumped up against the unfortunate victims and the terrible ordeals which they had to meet. It was not till 1693 that belief in witchcraft all over the world began to undergo a change. Mr. Edward G. Mason contributes a paper on "Early Visitors to Chicago" in which he gives a description of the earliest visitor to Chicago - beginning with La Salle in 1671 - and what was their reported condition of the country. "The Annals of an Ancient Parish" by Rev. W. H. Savage gives a good account, - with illustrations of familiar places...
Yesterday, also, might be called "Visitor's Day," with the 'varsity crew, as an unusually large number of old men were down at the boathouse to watch the crew row. Among others, George Keyes, '89, Charles Hammood, '82, Curtiss, '83, and Phillipps, a Cornell...
George Nelson of the '90 crew watched the crew row last Monday; and Chas. Cuhorn '90 was also a visitor the same...
Perhaps the most original bit of prose in the number is "A Plea for the Higher Education of Apparitions." In it there are several bright ideas and humorous turns of thought, the slight plot of the whole hinging on the ignorance which a spirit-visitor displays in not knowing the difference in time between London and New York...
...Iron Fountain" is a well told story, a simple legend of Antwerp which has woven itself about a small iron fountain which the present visitor may see. "In the Moonlight," by the same author, is a graceful account of an Indian legend...