Word: 250th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swedenborgian belief in immediate judgment after death, and they experience exhilaration in contact with one of the most versatile scientific minds the world ever knew. Last week, at some 80 public dinners throughout the U. S., Swedenborgians joined with non-Swedenborgian scientists, pedagogues and divines to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the great Swede's birth...
International celebration of the 250th anniversary of Swendenberg's birth, January 29, 1688, will be held next Saturday...
...knowing that in this election year the New Deal would have to be nice to him. He rode back to Boston on the President's special, addressed the dripping crowd in Harvard Yard (see p. 22), calling attention to the fact that Grover Cleveland honored Harvard's 250th Anniversary, Franklin Roosevelt her 300th. "Naturally both of them Democrats," added the Governor leering at Franklin Roosevelt...
...that little candle throws its beams, so shines a good deed in a naughty world.' " After reviewing the history of Harvard, Democrat Curley got down to more familiar ground. Boomed he, cocking his head pertly at President Roosevelt: "A half century ago, upon the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the founding of Harvard University, the institution was honored by the presence of . . . President Grover Cleveland. . . . Today Harvard University is honored by the presence ... of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Both of them are Democrats, strangely enough. . . ." At this political crudity the President looked pained...
Said President Roosevelt, drawing one of those non-political analogies he loves so well: "At the time of the Bicentenary many of the alumni of Harvard were sorely troubled concerning the state of the nation. Andrew Jackson was President. On the 250th Anniversary of the founding of Harvard College, alumni again were sorely troubled. Grover Cleveland was President. Now, on the 500th Anniversary, I am President...