Word: 90th
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have met to celebrate the 90th birthday of Dr. Charles William Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard University--clarum et venerabile nomen. In behalf of those under whose auspices this meeting is held, I salute this distinguished gathering of scholars and citizens, assembled here today to felicitate our beloved guest upon this glad-some anniversary, and to bear witness to the honor, reverence and affection in which he is held among all the sons of Harvard, in the world of scholarship and letters, and throughout the length and breadth of our Republic. We greet you, one and all, with most cordial...
...Lois Selfridge, mother of Gordon Selfridge, London merchant: "I was among the passengers that arrived in Manhattan on the Olympic. Said the newspapers: 'Mme. Selfridge is now in her 90th year, although few of those who conversed with her on the ship would believe it, so alert and active is she in every sense...
...great English journalist, Frederic Harrison, was congratulated on his 90th birthday last year as "living among the third generation of his contemporaries." Men often live to be well over ninety; but it is a very rare thing to find a man so active, so vigorous, and so young-minded that it can be truly said of him that the generation of today are his contemporaries...
...Jefferson Coolidge '50, an overseer of the University from 1886 to 1897, a famous business executive, and United States Minister to France during President Harrison's administration, died Tuesday evening in his 90th year at his Boston home...