Word: joshua
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...names of Peel, Canning and Gladstone keep up the reputation of the college. Christ Church Hall with its lofty roof of Irish oak and armorial bearings is the finest in the world, Westminister Hall in London excepted. Many celebrated pictures hang upon the walls by Lely, Kneller and Sir Joshua Reynolds, and it is here that Holbein's Cardinal Wolsey and Henry VIII. are carefully treasured, together with a huge gridiron on wheels, a relic of the banquets given to that monarch by the crafty cardinal...
Coit, '83, has been appointed consular secretary at the American legation at Teheran, Persia, and leaves for there Saturday. He is the oldest son of Rev. Joshua Coit, secretary of the Home Missionary Society...
...average New York critic seems to have as much understanding of what the "OEdipus" means, as Sophocles would have of "Joshua Whitcomb...
...Boston, the perennial Denman Thompson appears as Joshua Whitcomb. The house will be crowded at every performance, as is the wont whenever Mr. Thompson presents his laughable characterization of the New England farmer. Season after season he "continues to delight crowded audiences," as the show bill says, until it has become a wonder in the theatrical world, that a piece of such trifling character, or rather a conglomeration of such commonplace incidents, should meet with such uninterrupted success...
BOSTON THEATRE. - 7.45 P. M.; Matinee, Saturday at 2. Denman Thompson will appear in "Joshua Whitcomb" for the rest of the week. On Monday, Mary Anderson begins her engagement, appearing as the Countess in Sheridan Knowles's "Love...