Word: visits
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...trip to the Harvard-Yale boat-race, where one of their young lady friends attributes the victory of the crimson to the fact that "those old veterans, Ernst and Tyng, have grown bald and gray rowing on the ball-crew." The party go in the steerage to Rotterdam, visit the Rhine, the Black Forest, Switzerland, and Venice, and catch a hurried glimpse of Paris on their return. The book is written in a literary style that disarms criticism, for the author states in his preface that without certain bits of slang the representation would have lacked an essential feature...
...visit's far from ended...
THERE are numerous curiosities to be seen in the public exhibition-room of the Library. It is reached by the iron staircase behind the catalogue. There are illuminated Books of Hours, old calendars, Hebrew MSS., chained monastic MSS., and other objects of interest, which are well worth a visit...
...result of these verses was a visit from my janitor on the following afternoon. He sat down, resting his feet on the table, complimented me on my "aptitude for versification" (those were the words he used), and began to tell me of his former period of prosperity. I reserve an account of this interview for some future day, and proceed to my third valentine, written in sympathetic ink, and directed
...President's idea of keeping all the students in Cambridge over Sunday, there are very few but will agree with us in thinking that the few additional hours which would be gained for study are amply compensated for by the pleasure and advantage one derives from a weekly visit to his home...