Word: fiftieth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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EVERY SOUL Is A CIRCUS-Vachel Lind-say-Macmillan ($2.75). "Now in the fiftieth year of my age comes my revolt. I come roaring forth with a book which is the opposite of little Rollo and little Lucy." Perhaps Poet Lindsay never said quite the same thing before, but the blatant tone of voice is unmistakably his. He is a hell-raiser whose hair is never brushed; like his latest book, he is "aggressive, however sinful and full of pride." Two good poems appear-one an old-style Lindsay chantey, "The Virginians Are Coming Again," and "Twenty Years...
...following article, which contains the substance of the remarks made by F. W. Taussig, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, at the dinner of the Class of 1879 on the fiftieth anniversary of graduation, is reprinted from the current issue of the Alumni Bulletin...
...commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the invention of the incandescent electric lamp by Thomas A. Edison, the Harvard Engineering Society will hold a meeting tomorrow evening at 7.30 o'clock in room 110, Pierce Hall. The main speaker on the program will be G. L. Kennelly, Professor of Electrical Engineering, who was the principal electrical assistant to Edison during the period from 1887 to 1894. Special exhibits and programs telling of Mr. Edison's achievements and their effect upon modern civilization have been arranged...
...occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, a year or so ago, "The Yale Daily News" issued a special number in which eminent graduates of Yale were invited to express their views respecting the higher education of today. Among them, very naturally, was the Hon. William Howard Taft, who responded to the invitation with a critical piece that set a thousand tongues aquiver. In an interview with Frazier Hunt in the current "Cosmopolitan" the Chief Justice returns to his theme. "The emphasis in college life is wrong", he insists. And he proceeds to expatiate on the submergence of scholarship in extra-curricula...
...Having just concluded the fiftieth year of active business in the steel industry, in the natural course of events, I do very little except touch the high spots now, and have implicit confidence in the person I always speak of as 'my boy'-although he is not a boy any more-to carry on the work of the Bethlehem Company better than I was ever able to carry it on; so that I am very happy in placing practically the entire responsibility with reference to everything pertaining to the Bethlehem company in Mr. Grace's hands...