Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Stephen A. Douglas, the son of the "Little Grant" of American politics, has been selected to deliver the Washington Birthday Oration, at the University of Michigan...
...Sawyer, rector of Tufts College Divinity School, has just celebrated his eighty-ninth birthday...
President, H. M. Rogers; master of ceremonies, P. King; secretary, J. L. Tildsley; class orator, A. M. Thompson; poet, C. B. Newton; ivy orator, A. P. Andrew; historian, P. H. Davis; presentation orator, W. A. Guild; class prophet, B. B. McAlpin; censor, R. T. Sloss; Washington's Birthday Orator, N. B. Tarkington; '76 prize debate, J. B. Carter; Nassau Herald Committee, Wylie, DeWitt and Dodd; Class Ode Committee, H. Rogers, Carpenter and Dunn; Class Day Committee, S. Rogers, Lester, Shelton, Cochran, Fraser, Warren, Beveridge, Carpenter, Woodcock, Henderson, Black, Morris, Driscoll, and Ferguson...
Yesterday, being the Queen's birthday, the Canadian Club held a special meeting at which the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Arthur J. B. Mellish '92, president; John E. Barss '92, vice-president; Fred. J. McLeod, Gr., secretary; and C. S. Hickman L. S., treasurer...
Professor Hanus delivered a very interesting lecture last evening, in commemoration of the three hundredth anniversary of the birthday of John Amos Comenius. With the advent of Francis Bacon, new life was given to the intellectual world and Comenius was among the first to be influenced by it. He determined to devote his life to educating the people and we are still working with the ideas and objects which he evolved three hundred years ago. That he is not forgotten is evident from the extensive preparations which have been made throughout Europe and America to celebrate his birthday...