Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...front of the Hemenway Gymnasium there is a new bronze statue, a replica of the "Discobolus" of the Vatican. A handsome pedestal of Italian marble completes the gift, which came from E. W. Longfellow '65, a nephew of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow '59. The arch at the entrance of Appleton Chapel has been adorned with a small fragment of an archway from St. Saviour's Church in Southwark, England, in which John Harvard was baptized...
...secret hopes of marrying. Her disdain is more than offset by the enthusiasm of Pepe's father, a comical, loving old gentleman with an unmanageable tongue. Pepe returns with the picture unsold. Soon after this shock, a millionaire plantation owner, Don Manuel, comes from Havana to help Pepito, his nephew, whom he has never seen. He mistakes Pepe for Pepito, buys his picture, and invites the artist to move over to his house...
...presentation of the comedy occupies about an hour. It treats of two poor artists, Pepe and Pepito. Don Manuel returns from Cuba very wealthy, and takes Pepe as his nephew to live with him in his magnificent house. It develops later that Pepito is the real nephew, and just as Pepe and Consuelo, his wife, think they must leave Don Manuel, Pepito arrives and the wealthy uncle keeps them all as his own family. The humor of the play revolves about old Don Cleto, Pepe's father, who uses wrong words, mispronounces, and disputes himself, and is always entangled...
...Jesup is a prominent New York banker and a nephew of Morris K. Jesup who has for so many years been active in advancing the common welfare in social, educational and political matters. He has been closely identified with the work of political reform in New York, in 1905 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the New York County Committee of Jerome Nominators, in which capacity he did vigorous work as a public speaker. It was at his suggestion that the movement was started which resulted in the formation of the Intercollegiate Civic League at the City...
...presentation of the comedy occupies about an hour. It treats of two poor artists, Pepe and Pepito. Don Manuel returns from Cuba very wealthy, and takes Pepe as his nephew to live with him in his magnificent house. It develops later that Pepito is the real nephew, and just as Pepe and Consuelo, his wife, think they must leave Don Manuel, Pepito arrives and the wealthy uncle keeps them all as his own family. The humor of the play revolves about old Don Cleto, Pepe's father, who uses wrong words, mispronounces, and despite himself is always entangled...