Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recesses might be turned in for an extra week during the Joyous Season, the Crimson is astonished to see that one can eat his cake and have, it, since the latest announcement makes no mention of the suspension of such idyllic interludes as Columbus Day or Washington's Birthday...
...Andrew Carnegie had been alive last week he would have felt richly rewarded for having given Manhattan a fine concert hall. Great music was played there by the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Boston Symphony, the New York Philharmonic. Another impressive concert commemorated the 100th birthday of the bearded little Scot who made such hearings possible. With music of a different calibre there was a newcomer at Carnegie Hall last week. She was Edith Lorand, trim, dark-haired Hungarian who fiddles and conducts an orchestra simultaneously...
...Bello Horizonte, Brazil, after baking a cake for what she thought was her 115th birthday, Euflasina Maria died. Next day five of her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren ate the cake, followed Euflasina Maria...
Harvard will be three hundred years old next September. It is a respectable age, however infantine compared with that of Paris or Bologna. A dignified ceremonial worthy of the pieties of such a commemoration is to be expected; and on an anniversary of the Genial Mother's birthday, she would be well pleased to see the children bring gifts back to the old home. In October the President and Fellows adopted a statement, made public this morning, of the plan and the purposes of the Three Hundredth Anniversary Fund. The general purposes of this fund "is to strengthen the intellectual...
...like the facts and we like the name of the new "National Scholarships" with which Harvard University is planning to celebrate its 300th birthday next autumn. Here is an institution which, though wholly free of governmental control, is truly national in the American use of the word. Its rededication to the country, under the vigorous leadership of the distinguished scholar who has become its president, is a fine and welcome gesture...