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...ancient custom the pope lists his joys & sorrows of the year. Joys for Pius XI were: the spread of missions; Catholic Action; the Eucharistic Congress in Dublin (TIME, June 20); the completion of the new Vatican art gallery; increasingly friendly relations with the Italian government: felicitations on his 75th birthday last May; the agreement between Bolivia and Paraguay to cease fighting for 24 hours at Christmas...
...name to conjure with is Frank Julian Sprague's, yet last week the foremost electrical engineers of the land and scores of other celebrities gathered in Manhattan to do him honor on his 75th birthday. They called him the "father of modern electric traction" (both horizontal and vertical). Listening quizzically, he beamed behind his mustache, half closed his keen old eyes...
...loyal booster for Washington University (I get paid for it), I have long thirsted for the sight of the name of the university in the pages of TIME. When I sent you information about the 75th anniversary of the university's inauguration, you sidestepped swiftly, neatly. But last week I thought I had you. "TIME will have to mention the National Intercollegiate Glee Club contest," I said to myself, "because Yale's in it. And TIME can't mention the contest without saying that it was held in St. Louis at the invitation of Washington University...
Washington University (present enrolment: 7,355) was chartered Feb. 22, 1853. First meeting of the corporation was on Feb. 22, 1854. These dates moved patriotic Rev. Dr. William G. Eliot, founder, to have the institution given its present name. Last February began celebrations, which last until June, of the 75th Anniversary of the inauguration of Washington University (April 1857). There were speeches, three Washington lunches in Benish's Cafe, a Washington's Birthday concert of the Men's Glee Club, the Women's Glee Club, the Chapel Choir and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. Messages...
...every TIME-reader should know, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died, aged 71, in July, 1930 (TIME, July 14, 1930), whereas Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge. 80, was alive and alert enough last July to felicitate Nikola Tesla on the latter's 75th birthday (TIME, July 20), has not died since...