Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Herbert Sanford, President of the Club, who was responsible for most of last year's musical numbers, has charge of this year's score and is directing the musical end of the production; while dialogue and lyrics will again be in the hands of Samuel Carter III, co-author of last year's show, "Fortuno...
...entry to the effect that "Edward Pelham, of the Class of 1673, coming by with a fowling piece in his hands, persuaded two boys to shoot a turkie sitting on Captain Cookin's fence." The remains were then wrapped in a coat and taken to Samuel Gibson's, where "it was dressed by his wife & baked in the oven, & in the night following it was eaten by Mr. Pelham, John Wise, and Jonathan Russell, studts." There are many other records, among them the tale of a student who was convicted of smuggling on the indisputable evidence of goose and turkey...
Henry Fielding is as different from Samuel Richardson as "Tom Jones" is from "Pamela". Fielding was the son of Lieutenant Edmund Fielding a descendant of the Earl of Desmond. In this connection there is a rather interesting anecdote. The Earl of Desmond belonged to a branch of the Denbigh family which until lately was supposed to be related to the Hapsburgs. To this claim is to be attributed the famous passage in Gibagg's "Autobiography," which predicts for "Tom Jones" "that esquisite picture of human manners"--a diuturnity exceeding of the House of Austria...
...Theological School was not formally organized until some years later: funds were lacking for its efficient functioning although in 1813 Samuel Parkman of Boston, a wealthy and public spirited merchant conveyed to the Collage a township of land in Maine "for the support of a Professor in Theology." The benefits of this gift were great in prospect, but it was of he immediate help to the department...
...following year Rev. Edward Everett was elected professor on this foundation. Five years later, in 1820, after the death of Samuel Eliot '60 of Boston, it was announced that he had been the founder of this professorship. The Corporation then voted to call the foundation the "Eliot Professorship of Greek Literature," and further, that "they are apprized of Mr. Eliot's sincere reluctance at the idea of receiving a posthumous distinction of this nature, in consequence of his beneficence to the University; but that they are also satisfied that he would submit his private wishes in this particular to public...