Word: visitors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...visit to the boat-house and a casual inspection of the boats and oars there stored is apt to make the visitor take his departure with plenty of food for reflection, and unpleasant reflection it cannot fail to be. The University Boat Club is supported by the subscriptions of the students, and it has always been supposed that some provision is made for the aquatic exercise desired by those who are not members of either of the five regular crews. Yet what is the real state of matters? A glance at the array of craft tucked away upon the brackets...
...excellent, was yet quite as interesting. Some of the plaques and of the painted china ware were very fascinating and exceedingly well executed. Much of the work in the Art School department was in the line more of studies than of paintings with any prominent meaning. The visitor was amused at seeing in almost every third or fourth picture an old skull with high cheek bones; and, when the model itself was found in an out-of-the-way corner, it was like coming upon an old friend. The sculpture, of which there were several very good pieces on exhibition...
...casual visitor to Jarvis Field sometimes wonders at a group of men on the southern end of the field, who, with their legs guarded by curious pads, stand in front of three upright stakes at the end of a smooth gravel path, and bat the balls thrown at them by the bowler. This is the cricket eleven practising...
...College of Liberal Arts is situated on Somerset street, and is fitted up in a very pleasing style. The college is co-educational, and the visitor is surprised at the beauty and arrangement of the sections of the building which are reserved for the girl collegians. Their study, a large square room lighted on three sides, is called the Parthenon, although it might well be called the Pantheon. The Dean's office is less terrible than our U. 5 in its simplicity. Everything looks comfortable, and the visitor at once feels at home. There is a gymnasium for the male...
...instruction is of the highest order and extremely thorough. The requirements for admission are the same as those of Harvard in past years. The young ladies recite with their brother-students, and seem to have a peculiar propensity for leaving them in the dim and shadowy distance. The visitor has a strange sensation of unrest as he hears, while passing a recitation room, "Mr. Smith, account for this very strange construction." "Can't do it, sir;" and then hears Miss Jones say that it is an anacolouthon. No wonder, he thinks, that so many of our colleges reject co-education...