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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Conant, now in his fourth year as head of the University, celebrates his forty-fourth birthday today. The twenty-fifth president is planning a routine day with the usual office hours, and a dinner with members of his family is his program for tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Will Pass 44th Birthday in Usual Office Day | 3/26/1937 | See Source »

...with the congregation praying with 108-beaded Ojuzus, or prayer-strings, the Temple was made a Betsu-in and bespectacled Priest Shigefuji became a Rinban of equal rank with Rinban Masuyama. Next morning a Hana-matsuri, or flower festival, took place in honor of Buddha's 2,50311! birthday (April 8), with the two Rinbans pouring sweet water on the gold statue in commemoration of the legend that sweet rain fell when Buddha was born. Finally, at Fresno High School athletic field, members of Young Men's Buddhist Associations competed in a Japanese Olympic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fresno Betsu-in | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

Fresno Buddhists remarked that their Temple was fortunate. Rarely are Buddhists entitled to celebrate the enthronement of an image, the creation of a Betsu-in, the elevation of a Bishop, and Buddha's birthday at one time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fresno Betsu-in | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...didn't I, Bud?" sighed he, facing the boy in court again. "How fair have you been to me? When you think that over and learn the answer you'll have learned much about life. That's all now. I'm through." On his 100th birthday anniversary the City of Buffalo, N. Y. accepted a bust of Grover Cleveland which had been rejected 52 years ago because the sculptor had left off one of the coat buttons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 22, 1937 | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

Eliot House will hold its annual dinner in honor of President Eliot on Sunday, March 21, at 7 o'clock. The dinner is customarily held on March 20, which is Eliot's birthday, but as the date falls on a Saturday this year the dinner has been planned for the next day. Last year due to a University celebration on his birthday the dinner was given on March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 3/18/1937 | See Source »

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