Word: birthdays
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Tomorrow the morning service at Appleton Chapel will commemorate the birthday of Phillips Brooks, a loyal and distinguished son of Harvard who never fully outgrew his undergraduate days. During the years of preparation in the seminary and his early ministration in Philadelphia he constantly kept in touch with his friends in Cambridge and widened his acquaintance among the undergraduates who followed him. When he came to Boston as rector of Trinity Church his frequent visits to Appleton Chapel brought him in close touch with the students. The service tomorrow morning bears witness of the affection in which his memory...
...regular morning prayers tomorrow conducted by Rev. J. G. K. McClure in Appleton Chapel, will commemorate the birthday of Phillips Brooks '55. Bishop Brooks's birthday is December 13, but as this date falls on Sunday it has been decided to hold the commemorative service tomorrow...
...anniversary of Professor Charles Eliot Norton's birthday, November 16, 1827, will be observed in the College Library today by placing on exhibition in the Treasure room a number of volumes selected from his library. In the spring of 1905 an arrangement was made with Professor Norton by which the more valuable portion of his library should pass into the possession of the College Library at his death. The exhibition today will be open to members of the University from 10 to 1 o'clock...
...knew that Mr. Norton was nearing his eightieth birthday, but I was instinctively putting it off some years longer, and it needed your reminder to make me realize that it fell next month. Whatever his age, there was something in the early maturity of his power which keeps him enduringly young; the keen insight, the critical acumen, the generous sympathy, remain undimmed, unblunted, unchilled...
...seemed fitting to devote this number of the CRIMSON to the late Professor Norton. At the time of his eightieth birthday last December, the Graduates' Magazine published a number of letters from men of prominence, written to commemorate his birthday. The CRIMSON has taken the liberty of re-publishing these letters, with one or two others in the hope that a larger group of people might have a true appreciation of the high regard in which he was held by his associates...