Word: viii
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Durand, Conf. group II New Lect. Hall Mr. Evans, 4, 14, Conf. group III Memorial Hall Mr. Gideonse, 5, 13, Conf. group IV New Lect. Hall Mr. Jordan, 7, 18, Conf. group VI Memorial Hall Mr. McDonald, 8, 17, Conf. group VII Harvard 5 Mr. Parkman, 9, Conf. group VIII Memorial Hall Mr. Perkins, 10, 25, Conf. group IX New Lect. Hall Mr. Potter, 6, 15, Conf. group V Geol. Lect. Rm. Mr. Scramuzza, 11, 21, Conf. group X Harvard 6 History 4 Harvard 3 History 24b Sever 30 Italian 5 Sever 18 Latin 8 Sever 18 Mathematics...
...Greek B II Sever 29 History 55 Sever 6, 11 Italian 10 Sever 36 Mathematics 2, sect. 3 Harvard 3 Mathematics 13 Sever 5 Mineralogy 12 Geol. Mus. 22 Palaeontology 1 Emerson A, J Philosophy 3a Emerson D Philosophy 9 Emerson D Spanish 8 Sever 36 TUESDAY, JUNE 11 (VIII) Chemistry 9 Emerson F Class. Philology 55 Emerson F English 4 Harvard 2 Fine Arts 14d Fogg Small Lect. Rm. German A Mr. Bennett, 8 Emerson A Dr. Cross, 15, 20, 21 New Lect. Hall Mr. Hawkes, 4, 13 New Lect. Hall Dr. Heffner, 6, 11 Emerson D Mr. Henry...
...years, in many ways like a later man named Roosevelt, Henry VIII hunted, swashbuckled, consorted with scholars, schemed, warred, legislated, toiled. He also married prodigiously...
Average Reader pictures Henry VIII as a fat lecher who married many wives. He was, he did. But there was more in his marrying than lechery. An autocrat surrounded by lovely "maids of doubtful honor," he had no need to marry multitudinously. He needed a legitimate son for the sake of his pride, his dynasty, his country. By his halidom he would have a son if he had to marry and murder a half-dozen wives. Presented with the infant Elizabeth, later to be called great, he bellowed: "But Christ, this to me! To me! A daughter! I would prefer...
...written biographically of the gigantic, simpleminded, "red-tempered," go-getter king include: Froude (hero worship in magnificent prose); Gasquet (colored with religious emotion); H. A. L. Fisher (fairly, in The Political History of England, vol. 6). And there is the monumental Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII, 21 vols., a work of 50 years, deep mine of source material. Author Hackett used these and many another book and record. He worked on his biography over a period of six years. It has the best of material (perhaps too much), a brilliant style (now and then a polish...