Obituary

Mr. George Riddle '74, instructor in elocution at the University from 1878 to 1881, died suddenly on Saturday morning at the Boston Relief hospital. He was born in Charlestown, September 22, 1851, and was graduated from the College with the class of 1874. Mr. Riddle began his public career as a reader of Shakspere, but in 1875 he turned to the stage. During the spring of 1876 he acted in New York with Edwin Booth. In the celebrated production of Sophocles' Oedipus in 1881, given in the original Greek by members of the University, he took the part of Oedipus. Of late years Mr. Riddle confined himself to writing for magazines and to giving readings.