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...newspaper and academic circles the occasion of his resignation has been placed at several dates all of which would seem to have some especial significance: his seventy-fifth birthday, which comes next December; the culmination of his twenty-fifth year in office, which falls in 1934; or the three-hundredth anniversary of the founding of Harvard, which will be celebrated...
...battle is not the piont. That will all be threshed out again for the hundredth time when Marshal Joffre's memoirs are published posthumously...
...address given by Charles Evans Hughes at the one hundredth anniversary of the Rhode Island Alpha of Phi Beta Kappa is especially interesting in the light of recent developments at Harvard. Dealing with the subject of college from the standpoint of both student and educator, the Chief Justice declared: "We may at times overestimate what can be accomplished in the few years of college training, and there are not wanting those who in their zeal to dignify and extend college work forget that college is made for man and not man for college . . ." Striking against attitudes of indifference, intolerance...
...effigy of the familiar statue of John Harvard which sits before University Hall surveying the Yard was one of the many figures of note in the parade held to celebrate the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of Boston yesterday...
Since New Year's, Frenchmen have celebrated with pomp & circumstance the hundredth anniversaries of Romanticism, of the conquest of Algeria, of the invention of the sewing machine.* Last week in Paris, their centennial enthusiasm undiminished, President Gaston Doumergue and Prime Minister André Tardieu clapped on their silk hats, motored to the Hotel de Ville behind a clattering escort of brass-helmeted cuirassiers of the Garde Républicaine to make oratory on the Hundredth Anniversary of the Revolution of 1830, which in three days of furious street fighting† swept Charles X from the throne of France, installed...