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Nikola Pashitch, who is part Bulgarian, recently celebrated his 80th birthday. For some 55 years he has devoted himself to the service of his country. In 1881 he conceived the idea of a Greater Serbia, became co-founder with the Greek leader, Eleutherios Venizelos, of the Balkan League, and with him hatched many a scheme for extending the frontiers of Serbia and Greece. With the signing of peace in 1918 his dreams were realized. Serbia grew into the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Kraljevina Srba, Hrvata, i Slovenaca), but he found himself faced with opposition from Montenegrins...
Queen Alexandra, the Queen Mother, now in her 80th year, will not again appear at any public functions because of the physical strain entailed, it was announced from Marlborough House, the Queen's London home...
Onward - during the night - to Meacham, Ore., went the Presidential party. There in the hamlet on the old Oregon Trail, high up in the Blue Mountains, the President was treated to a pageant in honor of the 80th anniversary of the opening of the Trail. Oregon would like the Federal Government to make the Trail a great highway. The state has also a $50,-000,000 irrigation plan for the Government, known as the Umadillo project...
...November 23 a reception was held in the Living Room in honor of Major Higginson's 80th birthday, at which President Eliot, President Lowell, Bishop Lawrence and Dean Briggs spoke...
Nearly 400 members of the University gathered in the Living Room of the Union last evening to celebrate the 80th birthday last Wednesday of Major Henry Lee Higginson '55. The first speaker of the evening was President Eliot, who touched on the various phases of Major Higginson's career. He laid particular emphasis on the fact that Major Higginson "followed his own bent to a successful conclusion," especially in the study of music at Vienna. "The establishment of the Boston Symphony Orchestra was a great and wonderful service to the community," he said...