Word: birth
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Applications for tickets for the dinner which the Memorial Society will give November 26 in honor of the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of John Harvard, should be sent on or before Saturday to G. G. Glass, Treasurer, Box 11, Cambridge, Mass. All applications should be accompanied by a stamped and addressed envelope, and by a check which will cover the cost of tickets, which will be $2.50 each. The hour of the dinner will be 7 o'clock...
...asked to communicate these plans, so far as they are able, to other Harvard men, and to extend to them the Society's invitation to take part in the dinner. In this way it is expected that the week which will be spent in celebrating the anniversary of the birth of John Harvard can be made the occasion for a general reunion of all Harvard...
Misinformation alone can account for the press reports from Berlin stating that the fact that Professor Schofield is a British subject has caused some unfavorable comment there. Long before Harvard's representative left, it was known in Germany that he was of Canadian birth, but no objection was offered. It is perhaps not generally understood that the exchange of professors is an academic arrangement which involves no diplomatic complications. As the holder of a Harvard degree and a member of the Faculty, Professor Schofield is a true representative of the University, and as such he will be received...
...sarcasm the writer of the communication printed this morning ridicules the idea of a bonfire as a part of the John Harvard anniversary celebration. With clear and concise logic he shows the folly of adapting a method of rejoicing over athletic victories to an occasion so sacred as the birth of our founder. We understand that some men may feel above such a childish display of animal spirits, but we scan the communication in vain to find an adequate alternative. True, the writer suggests that the Faculty should have planned academic ceremonies which would conform to the dignity...
...should remember that this is the anniversary of the birth, not the death, of the man who so generously endowed Harvard. Although our knowledge of the man is limited, we cannot but feel that he would prefer the presence of the young men who benefit by his endowment, rather than an atmosphere of sanctity from which heartiness is lacking. The bonfire may offend some, but we see nothing radically objectionable in it, and in the absence of a substitute which could secure equal participation we do not consider it entirely unfitting...