Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Today is the date generally accepted as the birthday of the famous founder of the University, but the exercises will take place tomorrow in order that a portion of the Corps may participate...
...celebration of the birth of John Harvard will take place not on Monday, November 26, his true birthday, but on Tuesday morning, in the Delta by Memorial Hall. This change was made by the Memorial Society, under whose auspices the short exercises will be held, in order that a detail from the R. O. T. C. might take part in the celebration. Detachments from the 1st and 2nd Battalions, and possibly both battalions entire, which hold their regular drill on Tuesday morning, will march to John Harvard's statue for the exercises. Exact plans for the participation of the University...
...members of the University of today, some of whom, perhaps, have never seen his face or heard his matchless oratory of perfect speech, join with the multitude of Harvard men everywhere in wishing him health and happiness on his eighty third birthday...
...only remains to add that the lady, on receiving a conjugal salute from her husband on the morning of her birthday, remarks in a voice of utter despair: "Triste baiser...
...noteworthy thing, as recorded in the press dispatches yesterday, that the interned German liners displayed American flags in commemoration of the birthday of Lincoln. It would be the depth of prejudice to hint that the display of those flags betokened anything but the sincere admiration of the commanders of the liners. Those men, alien and powerless in this country while a great war threatens the land of their birth, may have come in thirty months to feel some measure of regard for that great American who typifies the ideals and the democratic power of his people...