Word: gustavus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among these debates are contests with the University of Iowa, Dennison College, Wayne University, Central Ohio State College, and Gustavus Adolphus College...
...Verdi's libretto was inspired by the 1792 murder of Sweden's King Gustavus III at a masquerade in the Stockholm Opera House, but in 19th century Italy, a direct reference was impolitic. So Verdi and his librettist shifted the shenanigans to colonial Boston, disguised the King as Britain's colonial governor, "Riccardo, Earl of Warwick...
...existence of theatrical activity at Harvard is evident even before the regulation of 1762 and evinced by the very need for such a regulation. There are written records which show that in 1690 Gustavus Vasa, by Benjamin Colman '92, the first play written by an American, was performed at commencement. This must have had the blessing of the College, though probably not of the Commonwealth, since as early as 1665 there is record of amateurs being summoned to court for presenting a play...