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...fiddler had a son born to him by a woman 17 years older than himself, because the lumpish German infant grew up to be Johannes Brahms, musical organizations everywhere this year have been paying court to the memory of one of the world's greatest composers. On his 100th birthday this week Hamburg listened reverently to Brahms's music, placed wreaths before the bust of the hulking, bearded old man at the entrance of its famed Musikhalle. Cincinnati last week heard Brahms music played at its 30th spring festival. Boston fortnight ago had five days of Brahms. This...
Copey" likes Palestrina, New England, mustard-colored suits, Kipling, Dickens. He envies Manoel Garcia, who taught singing until his 100th year and then became a cigar. Copey phobias are drafts, coughing, lateness, being photographed, being asked to write prefaces to books by former pupils, and fire. He always swore that Hollis was a fire trap...
...meeting which the British Medical Association conducted in London last fortnight was that body's 100th. But save for a "pilgrimage" to Worcester where a group unveiled a memorial window in Worcester Cathedral and a plaque on the home of the late Sir Charles Hastings, B. M. A. founder, speakers in the main refrained from historical palaver. Professor Julian Sorell Huxley told about the "Biology of Human Nature.'' The Prince of Wales attended the Centenary Dinner in Albert Hall, sat close to his personal physician Bertrand Dawson Lord Dawson of Penn, incoming B. M. A. president...
...Lafayette College (Easton, Pa.) observed its 100th commencement. For the first time, the graduating class breakfasted in a body with President & Mrs. William Mather Lewis, hoped to make it an annual custom. Last month Lafayette had extensive centennial celebrations. Of 6,000 living alumni, some 1,600 (over 25%) were present, which was reckoned a record for any college. Proud also is Lafayette of The Biography of a College,* recently published, a compendious but lively account of its growth by Secretary of the Board of Trustees David B. Skillman...
...garments, topped off with a wax effigy of his head. As guarded now in an old box in the Anatomical Museum of University College, London, Jeremy Bentham sits with his skull at his feet, his favorite stick, "Dapple," on his knee. Last week, at the dinner celebrating the 100th anniversary of his death, he was trotted out on show, for his will stipulated that at any commemorative gathering he should be "stationed in such a part of the room as to the assembled company shall seem meet...