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Unfortunately for the prophet, in 1844 he had to revise the calculation and his fickle flock deserted him. A group of prominent Bostonians bought the building and converted it into an opera house after changing the name to the "Howard Athenaeum." There, in 1846, genuine Italian opera had its New England premiere with a performance of Verdi's "Ernani," and Sheridan's "Rivals" played to toney audiences from Beacon Hill until a fire gutted the wooden auditorium...
...from his easy chair in the venerable Athenaeum Club rose Sir John Squire in righteous wrath. He rushed for pen & paper to write a letter to the Times...
...nation at war, Holmes has eloquent things to say. He was no stranger to war. Walking down Boston's staid Beacon Street one afternoon in 1861, with his eyes glued to the pages of Hobbes's Leviathan which he had just borrowed from the Athenaeum, he felt a touch on his shoulder. "Holmes," a friend said, "you've got your first lieutenant's commission in the Twentieth." Holmes returned the copy of Leviathan, went off to war and a wound in the throat at Antietam. "As he grew older," writes Biddle, "the thought of war came...
...present, the members of the Deposit Library, besides the University, are: Boston Athenaeum, Boston College, Boston Public Library, Boston University, Massachusetts Historical Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts State Library, Radcliffe, Simmons and Tufts. Other institutions may join at any time...
...libraries, among which are the Boston Library, the Boston Athenaeum, the libraries of Boston University and Boston College, Radcliffe, Tufts, the Massachusetts State Library, and the M.I.T. library, plan to use the building...