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...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...
Feeling perhaps that the King's favorite book, Boswell's Johnson, was not all suitable for a very tired invalid, Her Majesty sought the sixpenny book counter, picked out The Hundredth Chance by Ethel M. Dell; also four of prolific Edgar Wallace's blood-drenched thrillers: The Flying Fifty-Five, The Missing Million, Room 13 and A King by Night. She bought a thrip'ny rubber sponge and a thripiny packet of nail polish...
Final settlements of problems which have always baffled students of the life of George Washington were announced yesterday to a CRIMSON reporter by Dr. Albert Bushnell Hart '80, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Emeritus. As historian of the United States Commission for the Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of George Washington, Professor Hart has been extremely active in research work about the first president; on Saturday he sails Ior Europe to clear up certain other points...