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Serving as a dress-rehearsal for its March 4th Sanders Theatre concert, the Harvard Glee Club and the Radclifft Choral Society gave a concert at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock...
...Salvador de Madariaga's recent ingenious attempt to prove that Columbus was an unconverted Jew is dismissed as "a significant pattern of hypotheses and innuendoes unsupported by anything so vulgar as fact." Professor Morison also smiles wanly at stories like Columbus and the egg.* Nor, says he, did Isabella pawn her jewels to outfit Columbus' ships. She only said she would if it was necessary; it wasn...
...blood in which there are too many acts. The perpetual, sterile hunt for gold; the extermination or enslavement of the Indians; the bitter intrigues of Columbus' rivals; his failure as a colonizer and governor; his return to Spain in irons; his loss of the confidence of Ferdinand and Isabella. . . . Everything went wrong. He discovered the Venezuelan pearl fisheries, which might have retrieved his reputation in Spain; but he did not realize what he had found, and a few months later a rival began to work them. In Panama he found gold, but could not get the metal out. With...
...produce. They cared little that the nearby hermitage of N. Sa. de La Antigua had formerly been the meeting place of the Parliament of Basque Senators. They knew of the ancient oak in its courtyard--time honored symbol of the free Basques--but they marveled not that Ferdinand and Isabella in 1476, and Charles the Fifth again in 1526, had sworn to uphold the Basque Fueros under its overspreading canopy...
Essayist Richard Steele to Mary Scurlock (1707): ". . . You must give me either a fan, a mask or a glove you have worn, or I cannot live. . . ." Biographer James Boswell to Isabella de Zuylen (1764): "You have fine talents of one kind; but are you deficient in others? Do you think your reason is as distinguished as your imagination? Believe me, Zelide, it is not. Believe me and endeavor to improve. . . ." (She rejected him.) Field Marshal Gebhard von Bliicher to one Frau von S. (1795): "I can't enter upon any marriage which does not make provision...