Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the announcement yesterday of the undergraduate plans for Harvard's big birthday party next September, the celebration is beginning to assume its proper magnitude in the eyes of the students. It is unfortunate that up to the present time most of the plans which have been released to the public have been of such sedate and dignified character that many students have never fully realized the true nature of the affair...
...undergraduate committee has withdrawn every possible question mark from the minds of students. Harvard's birthday celebration will be in the best tradition of birthday celebrations with the happy exception that both fun and sentiment are to be magnified a thousandfold. Tears will be shed and Bacchus will sneak from his vineclad retreat to mingle quietly and not so quietly with revellers disposed to entertain him. And justly so. Such an affair merits the profoundest dignity, the tenderest sentiment, along with the most care free jubilation that those concerned can muster...
...minds and hearts of those who have gone before manifests itself in the swelling Tercentenary fund, the enthusiasm for the joyous occasion will become electric in the undergraduate atmosphere. The announcement of such carefully worked out and such intelligent plans is gratifying evidence that Harvard will have a birthday party worthy an institution so respected and well beloved by its sons...
Heidelberg terms the occasion the 550th birthday of the University, but according to "Nature", authoritative British scientific journal, this spring will not be the 550 anniversary but the 549th. "Nature" bases its calculations on the charter in the British Museum, which was issued by Pope Urban VI on October 23, 1385. Unless this original source is misleading, the celebration will be one year less than the five and a half century mark...
...Washington's birthday 4,000 spectators lined up in ankle-deep slush along the river. Virginia's Governor George Campbell Peery refused to wet his feet, missed the show. Presently Pitcher Johnson wound up, plunked one dollar into the river, placed two more well up on the opposite bank. Official distance: 286 ft. 6 in. Representative Bloom, "too busy" to attend, refused to pay the citizens of Fredericksburg $100,000, pointed out that the legend was impossible anyway since the dollar did not exist in Washington's youth...