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...100th anniversary of the first battle between the student organizations. In 1897, The Crimson felled 'HRB, 23-2. The radio station was in its first year of operation after constructing a giant smoke-signal station on the top of Apley Court, which bothered all river residents...
...while the estimated 1 million was down a half a million from last year's much publicized 100th anniversary, the finish line at the Boston Public Library was plenty loud when the lead runners began to trickle...
Even as she sped past her 100th year, Sister Mary projected the energy and enthusiasm of a much younger woman. With the aid of a magnifying glass, she kept abreast of national affairs by reading newspapers and magazines. With the aid of a globe, she prayed for the women and children of the world, one continent at a time. In fact, so savvy did Sister Mary seem, so tuned in to her surroundings, that University of Kentucky epidemiologist David Snowdon began to think of her as a kind of gold standard for successful aging...
European Comics, an exhibition at the Boston Public Library, is a traveling display co-sponsored by a number of European-affiliated Boston organizations; its goal is "to introduce European comics to the American public on the 100th anniversary of comics in the United States." The material that has been chosen is interesting and engaging, and the documentation offers a fairly thorough look at the development of comics in French-speaking Western Europe over the last fifty years. Unfortunately, the supporting information is not as richly detailed as it could be, nor does it offer any background material on the history...
...WHOLE LOTTA SHAKIN' GOIN' ON Uh-oh, it's Jell-O. This year the gelatin dessert has its 100th birthday, and so in June its hometown of LeRoy, New York, opens an exhibit that will be part of a permanent museum. Trivia fact: an electroencephalogram shows that a human brain and a bowl of quivering lime Jell-O have the same waves...