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...able presidents trip on the third stone step of University Hall as they mount for the day's work. For these reasons it is justly famous, but one above all others endears Holworthy Hall to the hearts of graduates. It once housed beneath its slated roof a man whose hundredth birthday is today being celebrated by the world...
...delivered, and over one hundred poems have been written to celebrate these occasions. Among the orators have been John Quincy Adams, Edward Everett, Jared Sparks, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Sumner, Henry Ward Beecher, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Wendell Phillips (whose address "The Scholar in a Republic" delivered at the one hundredth anniversary of the chapter, in 1881, ranks with Emerson's "The American Scholar" among the greatest orations of its type); Carl Schurz, Charles William Eliot, Henry Cabot Lodge, Woodrow Wilson, Josiah Royce, Charles Evans Hughes, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The names of the poets include Everett, Emerson, and Holmes; William...
...this volume, that in many ways it is the most interesting and valuable of the seven. The London Times comments that "The whole set will constitute a very valuable reprint." The appearance of "A Garland for John Donne" is particularly appropriate at this time since it marks the three-hundredth anniversary of the death of the great Elizabethan poet and preacher. The list of the eight scholars who wrote the essays which comprise this volume is a sufficient guarantee that the volume will not only have an interest to scholars but will also appeal to all who are interested...
...broadcast sunshine. Give Dr. Brinkley your medical problems. He will tell you the truth even if it makes you mad. I discharge my obligation to society when I urge you to have an examination every six months. Ninety-nine out of 100 won't, but I'm after that hundredth. Before you have your prostate gland removed send 25^ to the Brinkley Hospital for booklets...
...Managua, quake-devastated capital of Nicaragua, damage was estimated to total $20,000,000, only one-two hundredth of this being covered by earthquake insurance. One per cent of the city's stone & concrete buildings were declared "reparable." Bodies buried were estimated to total 975. Two children were extracted from an earthquake-made dungeon, physically unharmed, totally insane...