Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...might almost call the May Monthly an Elizabethan number, as two of the three prose articles relate to Queen Elizabeth and certain phases of life of her time. Mr. Baker, the English instructor, contributes the first of these two articles-the title of his essay being "The Children of Paule's." In it a charming and interesting picture is given of the choir-boys of St. Paul's Cathedral, their life, duties and pleasures in the good old days when the Tudor family reigned over England. Much space is given to a description of their acting and the literary effect...
...next was perhaps the most familiar of all,-Kenilworth Castle. This castle, made so interesting by Scott's novels, was visited three times by Elizabeth, and was the home of Dudley, the Earl Leicester, at one time...
...last subject was Haddon Hall, one of the best preserved examples of the Tudor architecture. It is a grand old place, and is the seat of a delightful romance, related at length by Professor Cooke, and was visited once or twice by Queen Elizabeth...
...those early days the father of John Harvard among its governors. Amid the changes which Southwark has undergone, so that most of the ancient landmarks are obliterated which connect it with names already mentioned, the school at which Harvard may have been a pupil, and which Queen Elizabeth founded, disappeared, and the building which it now occupies, nearer Southwark bridge, is already dingy with the damp and smoke of sixty years...
...rather interesting fact has come to light, explaining how Mrs. Elizabeth Fogg was led to leave her recent bequest of $220,000 to Harvard College. It seems that it had been her intention to build an observatory in Central Park, New York City, in honor of her late husband. The memorial was to be magnificently built and equipped. In talking over her project with Professor Josiah P. Cooke, head of the chemistry department, Mrs. Fogg learned that she would be unable to build, with the money she had for the purpose, an observatory as thoroughly and finely equipped...