Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attended in Buffalo, and was one of the wisest as well as the most lovable educators and leaders of youth that that city has ever known. In his last years as principal his former students, usually well over a thousand of them, were accustomed to banquet annually on his birthday in the big ballroom of Buffalo's Hotel Statler, and either one or both of his sons, as well as his daughter Edith would come up from New York City on these occasions to assist in doing him honor...
...Marshall's History of the Colonies for the North American Review, the autobiographical sketch discovered five years ago,* shed little new light on its author's life. But the letter, written when the Constitution was 40 years old voiced sentiments interesting on the Constitution's 150th birthday: "I begin to doubt whether it will be long practicable peaceably to elect a Chief Magistrate possessing the powers which the Constitution confers on the President of the United States. ... I begin to fear that our Constitution is not doomed to be so long lived as its real friends have...
...most part in his rooms at Hollis 15, occupied once by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and by Charles William Eliot, was described by Walter Lippmann '10, as a "catch-adcatch-can wresting match." Lippmann writing in the special CRIMSON issue released upon the occasion of Copey's 75th birthday, said of him: "Copey was not a professor teaching a crowd in a class room. He was a very distinct person in a unique relationship with each individual who interested...
...camp the members of the Class of '37 received their commissions an Second Lieutenants, Field Artillery Reserve. These were Philip M. Andress, William P. Bittenbender, John Fox, Keith H. Higgs, Philip A. Lief received a certificate which will entitle him to be commissioned when he reaches his 21st birthday...
...course, resigned to be succeeded by James B. Conant '12 and last June, the first class that entered with the new President graduated. Since his retirement President Lowell has been seen but rarely by the average undergraduate. He usually makes an annual visit to Lowell House on his birthday, and a dinner is given there...