Theater

Scope and Contents The Classics Department record group is split in to three series:Series 1: Office Files Series 2: Courses, Curriculum, and Catalog Changes Series 3: Teaching FilesSeries 1: Office Files contains six document boxes organized chronologically. Box 1 contains materials pertaining to classics theater performances from 1895-1925. Box 2 cotains materials for the 1926 performance of Hecuba, and Box 3 holds a Scrapbook for this Hecuba performance. Boxes 4, 5, and 6 contain...

Scope and Contents Record group contains primary and secondary sources written by, for, and pertaining to Reverend Alexander Sherwood Healy. There are two lectures, as well as six folders of many notes, writings, and sermons written by Rev. Healy. There is also a religious play written for Rev. Healy by Rev. James O'Leary during Healy's tenure as Rector of the Boston Cathedral, as well as the Death Card honoring Healy upon his death in 1875. The final folder contains two newspaper articles from 1980 about Rev....

Scope and Contents Most of the correspondence in the collection is responses to Rev. Fortier concerning the proposed production of “Hecuba” by Holy Cross at the Sesquicentennial exhibition in Philadelphia on September 15 and 16, 1926. There are letters of support from individuals including the mayor of Philadelphia, W. Freeland Kendrick, and the Archbishop of Boston, Cardinal O’Connell. There is a letter written by Rev. Fortier to Congressman Louis A. Frothingham on behalf of A.B. Yaffe to request help to...