Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...inquisitive visitor, pleased with the thought that it was a big "why" he propounded,--"why can English university men so soon take a recognized place in the political life of their country, often standing in Parliament the second or third year after they take their degrees, when young American graduates rarely contrive to win seats in their state legislatures, and then usually find that their share in statecraft amounts to keeping fellow-members amused by their boyish oratory...
...presume this makes you quite unhappy?" the inquisitive visitor asked...
...direction of a standing committee composed of certain officers of the University and their wives, who will receive at each Tea. A number of men from the undergraduate classes and from the Graduate Schools will act as ushers. The committee has planned, whenever possible, to have some distinguished visitor to the University present at the Teas...
Captain McLaughlin's pitching was the feature of the game with Bowdoin yesterday. As a result of his effective work the visitors were held scoreless, while the University team made three runs. McLaughlin allowed but three hits, one of which was a scratch. He showed a slight tendency to wildness at the start, but after the fourth inning not a visitor reached second...
Harvard is indeed fortunate in the number of great men that yearly visit the University and address the students. But rarely do we have an opportunity to listen to a man as eminent as Count Apponyl. Undoubtedly the leading states-man of his country, today's distinguished visitor is in every sense an international figure...