Word: 200th
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Appointed a joint committee to arrange for the celebration of the 200th birthday of George Washington...
...Coolidge descended from their railroad train in Philadelphia just in time to arrive for the end of a celebration. It was the 150th anniversary of the first meeting of the Continental Congress and the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Carpenters' Company. That forenoon, the guests of the Carpenters' Company had been taken to Valley Forge to see Washington's Army impersonated by Company H of the First Pennsylvania Militia, and a parade in which a number of ancient military organizations, including the Worcester Continentals, the Washington Light Infantry (of S. C.), the Amoskeag Veterans (of Manchester), the Governor...
...200th anniversary year of the death of Christopher Wren, architect of St. Paul's Cathedral, Chelsea Hospital, Hampton Palace, London, was celebrated on Oct. 20 (Wren's birthday) at William and Mary College, Virginia. Wren designed the main building of the College-his only work in America. Cass Gilbert, distinguished architect of the Woolworth Building, made the principal address...
...nearly three centuries the state, the government, and the commonwealth have leaned on Harvard College," said Governor Calvin Coolidge at the dinner given last night by the Memorial Society to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the building of Massachusetts Hall. "Massachusetts especially has looked on it as the product of her civilization. Founded by a man who had her interests at heart it became a place primarily un- der religious auspices and at the came time a pillar of the state; ever since that time it has remained loyal and true to the principles of the commonwealth...
...oldest college building in America--Massachusetts Hall--will have its 200th birthday this year. Some years ago the birthday of Hollis Hall was celebrated by a pageant, speeches, poems, and dinners. Massachusetts Hall, which is older than Hollis, will have an even more elaborate celebration. Plans for it are in charge of William Coolidge Lane, Librarian of Widener Memorial Library and President of the Harvard Memorial Society...