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...five of the most important athletic trophies of the year will be awarded. They include the Wingate Memorial Cup and the Barret Wendell, Jr. Trophy for baseball, the Bruce Finlay Vanderveer Trophy for crew, and the Angier Hockey Trophy for crew, and the Angier Hockey Trophy and the John Tudor Memorial Hockey Cup for hockey...
...Tudor park that our good friend and scholar, Roger Aseham, first caught sight of Lady Jane Grey. The little child of thirteen summers was reading ". . . Phaedo Platonis, and that with as much delights as some gentelmen would read a merrie tale in Roeeaeeio." The Duke and Duchess, hunting in the glade nearby, had been abusing her cruelly, for they pinched her if she danced ". . . they, good people, knew not what pleasure meant." The scholar felt himself drawn to this tender young flower of learning, and he watched her as she grow up in the court of Edward VI. At fifteen...
...odious Duke of Northumberland, plotting to transfer the royal crown of England from a Tudor to a Dudley brow, cared nothing for charm or scholarship. He dragged Lady Jane from her bower, gave her in marriage to his son, Guildford Dudley, and confounded for the nonce all other aspirants for the throne. Lady Jane swooned prettily when she heard that the Council in its pliancy had named her Queen of England. Meanwhile London could hear the rumbling of the distant drum, as the Eastern counties rose for Tudor Mary, and Catholic troops moved towards the metropolis. While Ridley harangued...
...Vagabond, with his hat safely removed from its customary pedestal, will invade the precincts of Harvard 5 at nine o'clock this morning to hear Professor Merriman lecture upon the reign of Bloody Mary Tudor...
Grafted Eyes, Mrs. Daphne Muir, only person ever to have the corneas of both eyes grafted successfully, appeared in Boston to show how Dr. Tudor Thomas, Welsh specialist, does such grafting...