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Died. Henry Garland Dupre, 50, Representative from Louisiana, "handsomest man in Congress"; at Washington, from a stroke of apoplexy...
There are also a few of the handsomest modern editions of the plays, and volumes dealing with the theatre of Shakespeare's time and the stage production of his plays, with contemporary prints of the Elizabethan theatres. In the glass case is a fairly complete series of the editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, many of them books of great typographical beauty...
Leguia, the handsomest, is Spanish. At one point in his career he acquired European culture, and by advocating new and clean government he secured his election as President of Peru. But for some unexplained reason he found it necessary to seize power by a revolution only a week before his predecessor's term would have legally expired...
...group of five buildings which is to house the Freshmen is situated on the banks of the Charles River, near the bridge to Soldiers Field. They are singularly successful architecturally, being the handsomest structures that have gone up in Harvard within the memory of man, and are an adaptation of the early Colonial style, from which Harvard, like Yale and others, should never have departed. The credit for their planning belongs to Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge, the Boston architects. There are three groups, Standish and Gore Halls and the Smith Halls, each consisting of three buildings, in the centre...
...constructing our first building, which is pronounced by experts to be the finest and handsomest example of college architecture in eastern Massachusetts. It is on property which we bought from the Charles Eliot Norton estate-five acres altogether-and adjoins the land of the Harvard Divinity School. The building will cost about a quarter of a million dollars. For the time it will house the seminary completely, offering even dormitory facilities...