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...Theatre Collection in the College Library has lately received by gift a collection of 102 original water-color drawings of famous actors and actresses, nearly all full length, mounted in three volumes folio. All but a few of the drawings are by Samuel De Wilde, an English portrait painter...
From 1797 on, De Wilde devoted himself almost wholly to portraits of actors in character, and, as the National Dictionary of Biography says: "Throughout a long life-time there was hardly an actor or actress whom he did not draw in their principal characters, thereby forming a storehouse of theatrical biography. Charles Mathews, Jr., described De Wilde towards the close of his life as constantly to be found at the corner of Drury Lane Theatre, a portfolio under his arm, and as having a happy knack of invariably hitting on a likeness...
William Chase Greene 3G, of Cambridge, was awarded a Bowdoin Prize of $100 for an original composition in Latin entitled "Qind de Postis Plato Censuerit." Selig Hecht 3G, of New York, N. Y., was awarded a Bowdoin Prize of $200 for his essay on "The Physiology of the Blood System of Ascidia atra Lesuer...
...Joffre, Marechal de France, that those thousand men, upreared in the spirit of liberty and proud in their strength, are worth more than a regiment of infantry. They would have stood well in the forefront of battle beside your bravest at the Marne...
Vive, Harvard, notre patrie, et Joffre de France...