Word: traveling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...always interesting to hear from a cultivated foreigner his impressions of America and of American life, and no foreigner could possibly have seen by travel more phases of this life and more types of our people than were shown at the World's Fair. The particular set of impressions which will be given Monday night will be especially interesting because many of the students, at the suggestion of Professor Norton last year in Fine Arts, tried to put themselves in a foreigner's frame of mind, and actually made estimates of our nation by its representation at the Fair. Here...
Thomas Chester Chard died at his home in Buffalo on Tuesday last. He was a member of the class of '89, and graduated with high honors. After graduation he spent a year abroad in travel and in study in Berlin. Since then he has been in business in Buffalo...
...important feature of Wednesday's game between Yale and Phillips Andover might be of great service to Harvard at the present time. It is that Yale was willing to travel from new Haven to Andover to play a "prep" school team. For several years it was customary for Harvard to play at least one game with Andover and Exeter. Of late, however, we seem to have departed from the precedent, and have substituted scrub nines wherever the weakness of the other team has been such as to give our 'varsity teams little practice...
After four years at Oxford, Addison obtained a pension on which to travel and prepare for diplomatic life. While in Italy he sent a piece of poetry, to Lord Halifax, an excellent piece of work, although he was only a second rate poet. On the death of the king, Addison lost his pension and in 1703 returned home to live in a garret without either profession or income. But soon he got a position and honors flowed upon him, when the Lord Treasurer, who wanted the Blenheim victory celebrated, went to the author of the Italian letter...
...very common, the number contains two articles on travel, one by Henry Van Dyke entitled "From Venice to the Gross-Venediger," the other by Alfred J. Weston, called "From Spanish Light to Moorish Shadow." There are so many magazine articles of travel which are hardly more than mere guide book accounts, that it is a pleasure to come across such an appreciative writer as Dr. Van Dyke. He gives something more than a topographical description of the country passed over; and when he gives this, he puts it in a charmingly readable form. There is a distinct atmosphere...