Word: visits
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EVER since I can remember, it has been the greatest desire of my life to visit and converse with the great authors whose works I have read with so much pleasure. That wish has fortunately been gratified in many instances; and I think I may truthfully say that no man living is more intimately acquainted with the doings and sayings of the famous literary people of the age than I am. And since the Quizzical Club has kindly invited me to speak to them to-night on the subject of Tennyson, having ascertained that the great poet...
...proud and reserved man - a man of few words - labor under a profound mistake: he can be eloquent upon occasion. I cannot forbear relating the delicate compliment he paid me at parting: he said, and I think he meant it, that he hoped I had enjoyed my visit as much...
Miss Jackson had come to England to visit her aunt, Salvation Rogers. Aunt Salvation - called Salvy by her intimate friends - had had the misfortune to be born in Bangor. No one, however, was more ashamed of this fact than she herself. At the age of ten she had come to England, and had lived there ever since. She had never married; she had tried hard to become an English-woman, and had succeeded to a certain extent; but her birth was against...
...teams which have represented the College in the various departments of athletics has greatly increased, and already there are enough of them in existence to form a collection which could not fail to be of great interest, not only to ourselves, but to the hundreds of sightseers who annually visit our Gymnasium. If all such photographs at present available were to be obtained and hung up in the meeting room, it would be a very easy matter to add to them each year the three or four more which would be needed to perpetuate the custom; and we would suggest...
...visit of the Football Team to Canada this year raises the question of the expediency of visiting the Canadian Teams two years in succession. The Team deserve a great deal from the College at large, but we think that rather than incur the great additional expense of a yearly trip north, they had better be deprived of the pleasant journey; and, if they must play return games, have them arranged with Yale and Princeton, where we can get some of our money's worth by seeing the game rather than hearing of it. However, there is no necessity of return...