Word: birth
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...hundredth anniversary of the birth of H. W. Longfellow h.'59 will be celebrated in Cambridge on February 27, under the auspices of the Cambridge Historical Society and a committee of citizens and members of the University. Among the principal speakers at the public exercises, which will be held in Sanders Theatre, are: President Eliot, Professor C. E. Norton '46, Colonel T. W. Higginson '41, and Mr. W. D. Howells...
...United Irish League, and as the representative of the Irish Nationalist Party, of which he has been leader for the past 27 years. He is a man of broad education and experience, having studied at the College of the Immaculate Conception, Athlone, Ireland, the place of his birth, and at Queen's College, Galway, where he graduated in 1866 when 18 years...
...Modern Language Club and the Alliance Francais celebrated the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of Pierre Corneille, the great French author and dramatist, last Wednesday night with great success. M. Jusserand, the French ambassador at Washington, opened the program with a brief address. Professor R. L. Sanderson then spoke in French on the life and works of Corneille. Immediately after this the French Club presented Corneille's great tragedy...
Professor Peirce was the son of Benjamin Peirce '21, who was also Perkins Professor, and a famous mathematician. He was born in Cambridge, May 1, 1834, twelve days after the birth of President Eliot, and graduated from Harvard College in 1853, in the same class with the President, taking his degree of Master of Arts in 1856. At this time he intended to become a Unitarian clergyman and six years after taking his degree of A. B., graduated from the Divinity School, which at that time gave no degree. Professor Peirce did not follow this plan, however, but spent...
...fifth Vesper Service of the year will be held in Appleton Chapel this afternoon at 5 o'clock. The following musical program will be rendered: "I Sing the Birth," by Sullivan; "There was Silence in Bethlehem's Fields," by Stainer; "O Little Town of Bethlehem," by Bullard...