Word: hundredths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...celebration of the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony anticipates the tercentenary of the College by a scant six years, and although the college will undoubtedly mark its own birthday, it will also have a prominent part to play in the state-wide celebrations which take place next year. The Law School will have an important position, as the observance of the tercentenary emphasizes the introduction of self-government and civil liberties into the future United States. The College, which has contributed so much to the intellectual and political progress of the state...
...meets as the play progresses all must yield in some point to its head. Don Evaristo is a bit crotchety, Dona Filomena is on bad terms with everybody; Dona Marciala is intolerant towards Gabriella, the erring sister of the family, when Papa Juan would ask her to his hundredth birthday party. But the old man rises above them all, smoothes out the quarrels and before the play is half over has so won the sympathy of the audience that one wishes he could fulfill his facetious determination to live to be two hundred...
...answered: "The Arabs, Dr. W., estimate age by several standards. The age of Hassan, the porter, is reckoned by his wrinkles; that of Abdallah, the physician, by the lives he has saved; that of Achmet, the sage, by his wisdom, I, all my life a scholar, am nearing my hundredth year...
...following article is taken from "The Story of Fay House" by Mrs. George Plerce Baker, which is to be published on May 7 by the Harvard University Press. The description of the commemoration of the two-hundredth anniversary of Harvard's founding is quoted, in Mrs. Baker's book, from "The Poetry of Travelling in the United States," by Caroline Gilman, published in New York...
This memorable day (Sept. 8th, 1836) is ushered in by clouds, but I cannot bring myself to believe that they will not disperse. Everything should be bright on this great anniversary, the two hundredth year since the foundation of Harvard College.... The noble elm of Washington, the tree beneath which his tent was pitched in the revolutionary war, is waving quietly in the breeze not far from my window, the only object in the whole circle of my view which saw the infant day of Harvard...