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Washington's Birthday. Holiday in all departments of the University...
President T. R. Pennypacker '16 will outline the plans for the relaying of the Washington's Birthday message which starts from Davenport, Iowa, at midnight Monday, February 21. This message will be relayed from Davenport to various stations till it finally is received by the Harvard station. From here, connections will be made with a station in Lexington. The operator of this plant will deliver a copy of the message to the Boy Scout leader, who will read it on the Lexington battlefield...
...Lampoon will celebrate its fortieth birthday at the annual dinner and party in the Lampoon Building tonight. William Roscoe. Thayer '81 will be the toast-master. Many of the founders of the paper will be present. Among the guests will be President Lowell, J. T. Wheelwright '76, A. W. Longfellow '76, Carlton Sprague '81, Barrett Wendell '02, Robert Grant '73, F. S. Sturgis '75, A. M. Sherwood '77, and T. R. Y'Barra...
...first celebration of John Harvard's birthday was inaugurated eight years ago when the Memorial Society honored the 300th anniversary of the founder's birth by a dinner, followed by a torchlight parade and fireworks in the Stadium...
...date of John Harvard's birth. The entry--"1607, November 29, John Harvey, S. of Robt. a Butcher"--which appeared in the baptismal files of St. Saviour's Church, Southwark, led historians, upon the occasion of the 300th celebration of his birth to fix November 26 as his rightful birthday. This was done because the custom in vogue in churches at that time required the baptism of all children on the third day after birth. In lieu of holding the celebration on Friday morning when few men would be in Cambridge over Thanksgiving, the meeting will be held on Saturday...