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...Hersey exhibited a picture of the Howard Athenaeum taken in the 1840's, when it was being changed from a church to a theatre. A photograph of the oldest Amerecan playbill, printed in 1750, showed how far ahead of Puritanic Boston was New York, since the first Boston theatre, the Federal, dates back to 1794. A copy of the Ford Theatre program for April 14, 1865, was a sharp reminder of Lincoln's assassination...
George Washington's personal library is now on exhibition in the Boston Athenaeum. Within a four-by-five-foot case rest the majority of the original volumes that composed the personal library of our first president. The volumes, much thumbed by re-reading and battered by being carried in the pocket, are in the same order in which they stood at Mount Vernon...
...member of the Phi Beta Kappa, has been Professor of English in the University since 1898, Clark Lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge, and later lecturer at the Sorbonne, Paris, and at other French universities. He has been a Lowell Institute Lecturer since 1905, is a member of the Boston Athenaeum, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society. He has published a number of books on a variety of subjects. The president of the paper for the next year was Charles Moore '78, Ph.D. '00, class orator, and a member...
...closing, Mr. Higginson recounted his first trip abroad when he met Robert Browning at the Athenaeum Club in London, and visited Alfred Tennyson at his country place near Cowles...
...convenience of members, the list of periodicals on file in the Reading Room of the Union is given below: Amateur Photographer, American Field, American Review of Reviews, Atlantic Monthly, Automobile Topics, Athenaeum, Auk, Bookman, Century, Christian Science Journal, Contemporary Review, Collier's, Country Life (English), Country Life in America, Cricket, Critic, Deutsche Pundschau, L'European, Everybody's, Field, Figaro Illustre, Fliegende Blatter, Forest and Stream, Fortnightly Review, Forum, Graphic, The Green Bag, Harper's Momnly, Harper's Weekly, Harvard Graduates' Magazine, Harvard Law Review, Horseless Age, Illustrated London News, Illustrated Sporting News (N. Y.), Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News (English...