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...scholarship, to be called the Josiah M. Fiske Scholarship, has been founded at the Annex, by the widow of Mr. Fiske...
...part of Helena, Miss Shaw comes about as near to perfection as can be conceived. John McCulloch is the only actor of much account whose name is remembered in connection with "Virginius." In that he appeared at his best. "The Love Chase" has three good acting characters, Constance, the Widow Green and Sir William Fondlove. Miss Marlowe disappointed many of her admirers, in "The Love Chase," but Miss Drew, as Widow Green, made one of the best impersonations on the stage. Knowles drew from two sources, Shakespeare and the old comedy...
...whom he formed a friendship which lasted almost throughout their lives. After leaving college, Steele went into the army, against the earnest entreaties of his friends, and there acquired a knowledge of the lives and characters of men which served him well in his later work. He married a widow named Stretch, who soon died, giving him thus the opportunity of marrying again, in 1707. The letters which he wrote to his second wife form the most interesting account we have of him. They were written at all times, when at his business, when drunk, when penitent or when...
...Heart, widow of the California senator, has given $1,000,000 for the erection of a museum at Golden Gate Park, San Francisco...
...occasion was made doubly interesting by the presentation to the Law School of 12,000 volumes, the library of the late Nathaniel C. Moak. The library will be known as the Moak Library and is the gift of Mrs. A. M. Boardman and Mrs. Ellen D. Williams, the widow and daughter of Judge Boardman. This addition to the library doubles the number of volumes in it and makes it one of the most complete in the world...