Word: visitor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...following address: Great museums exist already with Semitic departments, but none has hitherto been founded which collects objects directly or indirectly due to Semitic thought or which cast light on Semitic history. We have already many of the finest specimens of the more ancient art and literature, introducing the visitor to worlds of thought the existence of which he did not know before. The objects in the museum may be grouped into three classes, originals, photographs and plaster reproductions...
...Cambridge examinations. He presented the German Gymnasium as the best model. Before the student reaches Cicero and the Odyssey he has completed Bible history. In the next year he studies the ancient Church, in his last years the modern. He gives two hours weekly to the study. A recent visitor in Germany reports it among the most popular studies...
Last night Mr. R. G. Moulton of Cambridge, England, delivered his talk on the Humour of Ben Jonson to a good audience in Sever 11. Professor Barrett Wendell introduced the speaker with a graceful allusion to the pleasure of new Cambridge in listening to a visitor from...
...smoker, and to add to the enjoyment, two musicians have been engaged to play throughout the evening. Several members have consented to take part in a fencing contest, and there is also promised a bout with the single sticks. Only members will be admitted to the rooms, as the visitor's list, by vote of the committee, has been suspended for that evening...