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...Trudels had a party at Quebec City last week. About 2,500 of them from near & far witnessed a pageant honoring their most renowned ancestor, attended high mass in the cathedral, heard speeches, went picnicking in suburban Boischatel. It was the 300th anniversary of the first Trudel's arrival in New France. The Trudels were not the first French Canadian family to hold a tercentenary celebration nor would they be the last.* But their party was noteworthy because the story of the Trudels is, in a sense, the story of French Canada...
...headmaster. One candidate they considered was an alumnus then teaching chemistry at Harvard. They rejected him because of his "youth and inexperience." Three months later the alumnus, James Bryant Conant, was chosen president of Harvard. The pick-&-choosy school, Roxbury Latin, is this week celebrating its 300th anniversary. Alumnus Conant, proud of his old school's high standards, will be there to help celebrate...
...Soaked" During 300th...
...world has indeed moved, for the Vatican is honoring the 300th anniversary of the death of Galileo, whom the Holy Office condemned to imprisonment for his "scientifically false" and "antiScriptural" discoveries. Soon the Vatican will publish "an exhaustive study ... to place in its true light the aid and favor Galileo enjoyed at the hands of the Church." The Very Rev. Agostino Gemelli, president of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, who made the announcement, added that "Galileo as a scientist and author of new astronomical discoveries was never persecuted by the Church, but was greatly helped...
...year-old Dunster House will have its first real birthday party at a formal dinner on Monday evening, when the Funsters will commemorate both the occasion of the founding of there house and the 300th anniversary of Henry Dunster's becoming President of the College...