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...sentimental rainbow. More rough & tumble were Beale's ideas of Mrs. Casey's goat which butted a respectable Philadelphian into a watering trough or Uncle Rastus and His Mule. Literature particularly attracted the Professor. He made illustrations for such things as Evangeline, Hiawatha, The Courtship of Miles Standish, Elegy in a Country Churchyard (32 pictures in this set), Othello, The Wreck of the Hesperus. One of his favorites was Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight! Long before Minnie Maddern Fiske transposed the scene from Britain's Civil War to that of the U. S., and swung to theatrical...
...final business meeting will be held at 5.15 o'clock in Standish Hall Common room. At this time annual elections for officers will be held and constitutional amendments will be considered. This is to be followed by a banquet at Kirkland House. Speeches, which will be given in the Kirkland Junior Common Room, are to be by Edward Bowe '28, coach of the Harvard debating teams; and Moses Ware '02 and Albert A. Gleason '86, members of the Debating Council Advisory Board...
...Peter Standish Leslie Howard Helen Pettigrew Heather Angel...
...dealings with the fantastic and it is this quality that makes it both extraordinary and different as movies go. In the story a young chap from the twentieth country, Leslie Howard by name, projects himself into the eighteenth century there to live over again the romance of ancestor Peter Standish and Helen Pettigrew. Complications are presented in prophetic remarks that so uncannily diagnose the future and which he so inopportunely drops along the way. Throughout, of course, there is a philosophical background which contends that eternity is one in the mind of God and that the past, present, and future...
...While almost every schoolchild in Pennsylvania knows much about Captain Miles Standish and Captain John Smith, not one in thousands knows anything about the able Swedish Governor who established the first permanent seat of Government in Pennsylvania and did it before William Penn was born." Thus writes C. Hale Sipe, lawyer-historian-lecturer of Butler, Pa. The able Swede was an adipose lieutenant-colonel named Johann Printz who arrived in New Sweden in 1642, built a state house which existed for 160 years in what is now Pennsylvania. Johann Printz is only one of many historical characters for whose recognition...