Word: 150th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard cricket team was scoring the 150th of its eventual 159 runs at Soldiers Field yesterday, one of the Yale camp followers somewhat facetiously commented that now he knew how Crimson followers felt in the Yale Bowl last fall...
...prose coverage of the year's activities is probably more objectionable than the photographic. In a major lapse, there is no mention of the Program for Harvard College. The 150th anniversary of the Pierian Sodality is all but passed by and the 100th anniversary of the Glee Club does not fare much better. Such errors of omission, however, are almost matched by the errors committed in the realm of editorializing. Three Twenty Two is seriously marred by the inability of the editors to limit themselves to reviewing and analyzing the previous year. Rather than limit themselves to the role...
...apparent that, despite the generally high level of performance, there was very little of the excitement or festive feeling which should have been a part of a concert celebrating the 150th anniversary of the oldest orchestra in the world...
...Pierian Sodality of 1808 tempered their desire for "the members' mutual improvement in instrumental music" with a congenital weakness for good times during and after rehearsals. Despite these tendencies, administrative curbs, and financial troubles, the Sodality is still maintaining its tradition of music and enjoyment, celebrating its 150th birthday with a concert this Friday. In their first century and a half, the followers of the Nine Muses who dwell on Mt. Pieria have managed to found the Harvard Glee Club, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, and the annual Concert Series...
...ushers looked askance at his homespun clothes and refused to find him a seat. Last week Boston felt differently about the Green Mountain boy": the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, named in his honor and originally endowed from his estate, put on a high-toned medical symposium to mark the 150th anniversary of its benefactor's birth. The facts that Brigham once peddled oysters from a wheelbarrow and was arrested for selling liquor illegally were little noted. He was praised for having made a fortune in the restaurant business and in real estate, but most of all for having specified...