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...HUMANITY."- The Columbia Theatre, Boston, will have Sutton Vane's most successful melodrama entitled "Humanity" for its attraction next week, with usual matinees, Wednesday and Saturday. The play is one of Wm. A. Brady's most successful attractions and will be put on with the same splendidly equipped company, as when seen at this popular play house last season. The latest stage effects and the highest spectacular results of modern scenic art will again be displayed. With true love that runs roughly for its theme, and war, murder, bomb explosion, broadsword combat, fox hunting with English thoroughbreds and fox hounds...
...Howe, instructor of the blind. Bulfinch, the architect, and Peirce, the mathematician, went to Harvard; Agassiz fitted at several Continental universities. Franklin, Bowditch, the navigator, and Putnam, the settler of the Northwest, had no college education. Five of the original colonists - Winthrop, Carver, Endicott, Bradford and Vane - are appropriately remembered; the first studied at Trinity College, Dublin, the last at Oxford...
...Brooks, Pickering. J. and J. Q. Adams, Dane, Quincy, Sumner, Parsons, Shaw, Story, Everett, Phillips, Devens, Bartlett, Peirce, and Bulfinch; Bowdoin has three - Hawthorne, Longfellow, and Andrew; Dartmouth two - Webster and Choate; Yale two - Edwards and Morse; Brown two - Mann and Howe; Oxford, Dublin, and Munich have one each - Vane, Winthrop, and Agassiz, respectively...
...Prof. Me Vane has announced an hour examination in History 12, as soon as the period previous to the Revolution has been covered...
General references: Minority Report of Faculty to Board of Overseers, Jan. 6, 1891: Prof. Mac Vane in Harvard Monthly March, '91; in Pres. "Shortening and Enriching the Grammar School Course," pamphlet Pres. Eliot's address before N. E. Ass. of Coll. and Prep. Schools...