Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the hero of that worst Arctic tragedy in U. S. history was informed that Congress had voted him its Medal of Honor. Thus to Major General Adolphus Washington Greely, a week before his gist birthday, went the recognition for which he had vainly waited half a century. Lieut. Greely returned from the Arctic to find a civilian upped to the captaincy which he had expected. Quietly plugging ahead, he distinguished himself by laying thousands of miles of telegraph and cable wire in the Philippines, China, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Alaska, directing Army relief work in San Francisco after...
...second Boylston prize, consisting of $35, was won by Shipherd Robinson '36, who recited selections from President Conant's 1934 Baccalaureate Sermon. Robert A. Robinson '36, who gave excerpts from Charles Evans Hugh's "A Tribute to Oliver Wendell Holmes on His Ninetieth Birthday," won the third Boylston prize, also...
...Butler; Gilman Sullivan '36, who will give Robert Emmet's Under Sentence of Death"; Alexander Vardack '35, giving an excerpt from Victory Hugo's "Last Day of a Condemned Man"; Robert A. Robinson '36, giving an excerpt from Charles Evans Hughes' "Tribute to Oliver Wendell Holmes on his Ninetieth Birthday"; Robert Dunn '37 who will give an excerpt from "A Song of Unending Sorrow," Po Chu-I, translated by Witter Bynner; Arthur Szathmary '37, giving an excerpt from Edward Arlington Robinson's "Tristram"; Paul Killiam, Jr. '37, who will give an excerpt from "Poetry and the Moods of the Public...
Another event which promises to become a tradition, is the annual House feast on the anniversary of Charles W. Eliot's birthday, March 20. This year President Conant and Mr. John Finley, editor of the New York Times, addressed the merry gathering and it is expected that speakers of like merit will be procured every year...
...Feast was held in commemoration of President Eliot's 101 birthday and it is expected that a similar celebration will be held on the same day every year...