Word: travelers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...students remaining in town. The Glee Club and Nine had enjoyable trips South, notwithstanding the seven defeats which the latter received. It is difficult for the Nine to fully do itself justice on such trips, owing to the difficulty of keeping in good training during such constant travel...
Dante and Vergil, after passing Cato, enter what Dante calls the Ante-Purgatory. This is probably an invention of the poet, and has a direct allegorical interpretation. Through this place the poets travel during two days, and here Dante meets his former friend Cassella, the musician, who sings them that famous song, which is, perhaps, the most exquisite, and deepest in meaning of any we find in the Divine Comedy. On the third day the poets pass the gate of Purgatory, and find before them three stairways, the first of polished marble; the second rougher and dark in color...
...Columbia College into one of $2,000, with the condition attached that the winner shall remain two years abroad and shall spend ten months of this time in the school at Rome. Six months are to be actually spent in Rome itself, and the other four devoted to travel and study in Italy or Greece under the direction of the secretary of the school. This change has been made in accordance with the wishes of the donor, C. F. McKim. The first competition under the new conditions will take place this spring...
...fashion of the community in which a man lives is the greatest factor in deciding his habits. In Europe, and especially in Germany, every one drinks beer as a matter of course throughout the day, and even in England it is a difficult matter for a water drinker to travel without being practically forced to drink wines of various sorts. But these customs are now giving way to modern ideas, which, fortunately for us, have been characteristic of American life since its beginning...
...Ellis was born in Boston in 1814. He graduated at Harvard in the class of 1833, and at the Divinity School in 1836, and after two years travel in Europe was ordained as pastor of the Harvard Unitarian Church, Charlestown, Mass. In 1850 he became a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard on which he served for four years. Harvard presented him with the degree of D.D, in 1857, and in 1883 that of LL.D. From 1857 until 1863 he was professor of systematic theology in the Harvard Divinity School...