Word: yorktown
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Dates: during 1883-1883
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...mistaken ideas which foreigners sometimes form of our university is well shown in a work entitled "A Traversles Unis Etats," by the Vicomte d'Haussonville, one of the French guests to the Yorktown celebration, who visited Harvard in the fall of 1881. In his book the author devotes an entire chapter to Boston, including an amusing account of his trip to Harvard. When he says that the architectural beauty of the buildings did not impress him very forcibly we can readily agree with him, but when he remarks that the students are all obliged to live in the college buildings...