Word: judah
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...take pleasure in announcing the election of Travis Harvard Whitney of Girard, Kansas, John Judah Peckham of Geneva, Illinois, and Arthur Scott Gilman of Cambridge, Mass., of the Sophomore class; and of John Richards Locke of Portland, Maine, of the Freshman class as regular editors of the CRIMSON...
...Jehoram, king of Judah, son of Jehoshaphat, and seventh king of the line of David, married Athaliah, daughter to Ahab and Jezebel, who reigned over Israel, famous both of them, but chiefly Jezebel, for their bloody persecutions of the Prophets. Athaliah, no less impious than her mother, soon drew her husband to idolatry, and even caused to be built in Jerusalem a temple to Baal, which was the god of the country of Tyre and Sidon, where Jezebel was born. Jehoram, after having seen all the princes his children, with the single exception of Ahaziah, perish by the hands...
...Appleton Chapel last evening Dean Hodges of the Episcopal Theological School, read the Bible narrative on which Racine's "Athalie" is based, and briefly told the story of the movement which led to the overthrow of the tyrannical queen of Judah. Though the tragedy of Racine had a deep religious significance there were lessons to be drawn from a study of the purely religious aspect of the story. Dean Hodges called attention to the fact that the monks of the Dark Ages were the first to produce, as a means of conveying religious truth, the sacred plays of which "Athalie...
Tremont - Edw. S. Willard in Judah...
Tremont - Edw. S. Willard in Judah...