Word: 150th
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With due and fitting ceremony, and a banquet and speeches, Phi Beta Kappa, high brotherhood of scholastic distinction in U. S. colleges, last week celebrated the approach of the 150th anniversary of its founding, at the Hotel Mayflower, in Washington, D. C. The society's president, President Emeritus Charles Franklin Thwing of Western Eeserve University, was on hand, eruditely genial. Members of the mother chapter were there-President J. A. Chandler and Drs. R. M. Hughes and J. Lesslie Hall, of the College of William & Mary (Williamsburg, Va.) where (the year after Paul Revere rode through Massachusetts) one John...
...Brooklyn that last October the General Convention of his Church (the Convention that deposed, in absentia, Bishop William Montgomery Brown for his heresies) elected him bishop, and last week, as he knelt before his own altar, seven bishops laid hands on him, consecrated him the 150th living bishop of that Church. At the end of the month he will leave with his family for his new duties as Protestant Episcopal Missionary Bishop of Mexico, with exhortations from his fellow bishops to represent not only his Church but his country, and to be an "ambassador from Christ...
...Bell began to ring, for the first time since 1835 when it rang John Marshall to his grave and cracked?rang with about 80% of its former tone volume. Station WIP broadcast its clangor. The Liberty Bell rang again, rang in the New Year of 1926, rang in the 150th year since the signing of the famed Declaration, rang in the year in which Philadelphia plans to hold an exposition, a sesquicentennial...
Last week it was announced that Liberty bell will ring out across the land, its mellow notes carried by radio, ringing in the New Year, 1926, the 150th anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence...
...York Chamber of Commerce on Nov. 19 at Manhattan, the American Farm Bureau Federation on Dec. 7 in Chicago, and that on Christmas Eve he will deliver a radio address; also that he would doubtless speak at the opening of the Philadelphia Exposition in honor of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Several other speeches were on his program, undated. In addition the White House social calendar for the coming winter was made public. Beginning Dec. 3 practically every Thursday evening until February 11, one of the following events will be held...