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...Harvard Dramatic Club has selected Mr. Frank Reicher, the producing manager of H. B. Harris, as coach for the play. Mr. Beicher is a well-known manager and actor, having played in "Barbara Fritchie," "When Knighthood was in Flower," and having produced "On the Eve," and "The Sunken Bell," in which Julia Marlowe played...
...Library has received the last shipment of the Riant collection. Of the present instalment of two thousand volumes over five hundred are on literary history. There are many French and Italian works of general literature and numerous books on the medeaeval orders of knighthood, especially on the Templars and the Knights of Malta. There is also a special collection of the writings of Tasso, comprising about thirty editions, which range from the year 1581 to the present time. Many of the books are handsomely bound in heavy leather and many are of very early date...
...early as the following year. In 1646, the date of Charles I's surrender to the Scotch, came the "Vulgar Errors." 1658, the year of Cromwell's death saw the publishing of Urn Burial. In 1671 Charles II visited Norwich, and, as the mayor refused the proffered honor of knighthood, the King fulfilled his intention of distinguishing some eminent citizen by dubbing Browne Sir Thomas. In 1682, three years before the death of Charles, Sir Thomas Browne departed this life. The speaker made this association of the chief chief circumstances of Browne's life with the chief dates of contemporaneous...
That magnanimity of highest knighthood...