Word: wellington
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last Disraeli overturned Peel, and served in Lord Derby's new Cabinet. But when the Duke of Wellington, very old, very deaf, had the new list of Ministers read to him, he kept interrupting: "Who? Who?" whereupon they became known as the "Who? Who? Cabinet"; and were soon overthrown, Gladstone triumphant...
Reaching Ottawa the next day the men were received at luncheon by the American Minister to Canada Later they were entertained at a tea in Government House by Lord and Lady Wellington McKenzie King, premier of Canada and many other notables. At the concert that evening the singers were again accorded an enthusiastic welcome. Press comment was favorable saying that "if anything is incomparable or unique, it is without an equal. It seems to me that the two words might justly be applied to the Harvard Glee Club, at any rate I have yet to hear its equal though...
Team B at the B. A. A. Harvard 4, B. A. A. 1 G. T. Francis '30 defeated C. O. Wellington, 4-2. Loyd Vander Horst ocC. defeated P. Sheelinee, 3-2. H. G. Cushing '28 defeated N. W. Kennedy, 3-0. E. M. Shelton '30, defeated J. H. Read...
...succeeded his father, the 16th Earl, who was noted for his generosity, his stables and his conservative manners; he referred always to King Edward as "the King, my august master." The present Earl was educated at Wellington College and spent his early years in the army, holding many frilled, gold-laced positions. He entered politics with little enthusiasm and no ambition. Appointed Postmaster General in 1903, he applied his ponderous brain to the telephone system and subsequently nationalized it, the wisdom of which step has been disputed ever since...
First editions of Tennyson's "Poem of Two Brothers" and his Holy Grail", and the corrected proof of the "Ode on the Duke of Wellington" are to be shown. A first edition of the famous "Charge of the Light Brigade" is included in the exhibition...