Word: church
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...chapel is a curious old place; the organ, about 300 years old, was taken from the Spanish Armada. It has beautifully carved panels worthy a careful inspection. The columns are of marble from Kilkenny. The reredos is said to be one of the finest church decorations in Europe. Here, also, there are more portraits, in short there are several of them in each of the principal rooms. The best picture extant of the foundress, Queen Elizabeth, is in the Trinity collection. Last of all there is the room of the director of the library; it is small...
...have been leveled, known as "Watch Hill," upon which a sentry was stationed. Where University now stands was formerly the college wood yard and nearer Stoughton was a small brew house. The portion near Sever Hall and Cambridge Street was a pasture and huckleberry swamp. For some years a church stood on the old Watch Hill and several wooden dwellings faced upon the streets. Of these old buildings only Wadsworth House and the Dana House, occupied by Dr. A. P. Peabody, now remain. All the others were torn down after they were purchased by the college...
Millais has, it is understood, accepted a commission to paint a new portrait of Mr. Gladstone for Christ Church College, Oxford...
...great hatred of impostors of every kind, and it was not very safe for any such to approach him. A man recently called on him with some manuscripts, professing to be autographs of some of the early Fathers of the church. He exposed the pretensions of several without losing his composure; but when at last the original manuscript of the Athanasian Creed, in the writing of St. Athanasius (!), was produced, he called his visitor's attention to a large club in the corner of the room, and pointed significantly towards the door, by which the terrified man made his escape...
...Courthope's "Addison" and Dean Church's "Bacon" will be the next volumes in the "English Men of Letters...