Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...where the event occurred has been visited; and there are no person who has better opportunities for this or who would derive more benefit from it than the student. A few hours spent in such a way is certainly more profitable than a continual "dropping in" at some popular resort. Foreigners are wont to remark that America has no places of historic interest, and many men have grown up accepting the apparent truth of this assertion without seeking to disprove it. So long as we continue to agree with this prevalent opinion so long shall we hear these unpleasant things...
...Dennison Collegian is quite serious. It contains, among other things, an essay on Epitaphs, and an address to a skeleton. In the former we are told that the graveyard has always been a favorite place of resort, and that 't is "strange, and even passing strange, that the coffined clay should reveal the good which the living, breathing man failed to disclose!" The "Address," which is in verse, is remarkable for nothing but metre...