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November 7 is the actual Tercentenary Day, according to the members of the Council. On October 28, 1636 the General Court voted the money for the University. To ascertain the date of this act according to the reformed Gregorian Calendar, it is necessary to add ten days...
Birthday- Harvard claims birth on the day the Massachusetts Great and General Court convened to authorize its founding. This was Sept. 8, 1636 under the Julian calendar. Allowing for the ten-day advance of the Gregorian calendar, Tercentenary officials arrived at Sept. 18 as the date for the third and last big Day of the celebration...
...time has come when something must be done about Leap Year. The American people of the peoples of Europe, in fact, all the peoples of the world who use the Gregorian calendar have contented themselves to sit idly By year after year, decade after decade, generation after generation, and yes, century after century, and do nothing about a situation that cries for reform. At the present moment the only thing which is in order is vigorous, concerted, intelligent, and immediate action...
...full between two trains, a moment of silence in the traffic, and a wayfarer cocked an incredulous ear to catch the faint strains of Gregorian chant coming from under the bridge...
...parish where Lutheranism is austere and puritanical. The liturgists argue that what they want is nothing new. Martin Luther called a mass a mass. He favored vestments, tapers and incense; genuflected and even approved of private confession. And Luther, who wrote "A Mighty Fortress is Our God" and liked Gregorian chants, would never have approved of the organist who chased his pastor, wobbled his tremolo and abused his chimes...