Word: backus
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...History of Art" by Prof. Van Ingen, director of the School of Painting, and the first of a series of lectures and concerts under the management of Dr. Ritter, director of the School of Music, lectures on the following subjects have been given: "Alexander Hamilton," by President Backus, of Packer Institute; "The Heroic Element in History" and "The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day," by Dr. George P. Fisher, of Yale; "The Lotus in the Decorative Art," by Mr. William H. Goodyear, "The Hope of the Prisoner," by Mr. Wm. M. T. Round; "Charity Organization Societies," by the Hon. Seth...
...Frank Backus Williams replied, on the negative, that the armies of Europe have been one of the greatest civilizing forces which have developed and built up that continent. It was this very system which uprooted feudalism, and rendered the barbarity at tending it no longer possible. It is true that armies cost something, but so do peaceful governments, yet no one would favor the suppression of the latter. The very nature of our civilization demands that these armies shall be maintained. They have also a historical justification. The Persians. the Egyptians, and the Greeks all maintained large military establishments. Armies...
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GLOBE THEATRE. - 8 P.M.; Matinee, Saturday at 2. The San Francisco Minstrels bring a very successful season to a close this week. Charles Backus and Billy Birch are as amusing as ever. The performance ends with "Beadle's Pirates for Ten Cents," a good burlesque of the more familiar "Pirates...
...plot turns upon the contest between the mother (Miss Prescott) and her step-daughter (Miss Wainwright) for the affections of Fernand, the former lover of the mother. Louis James acts the part of Fernand very well. Next week, Tony Pastor's new Burlesque Company. May 31, Birch and Backus' San Francisco Minstrels, for one week...