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...there, no lack of fire and verve. Justice Holmes, in his ninetieth year, and his seniors on the Harvard list prove again the eternal truth that age is not a matter of years and days. New York Herald Tribune...
London, Eng., Feb. 17--The death of C. H. Moore '90, emeritus Professor of Art at Harvard University was learned today. Professor Moore was in his ninetieth year and had been residing for some time at Hartley Wintney, Hampshire...
...last previous public utterance: "I have every reason to be grateful on my ninetieth birthday. Everybody has been so kind and good to me all year...
...eyed citizenry of Midwestern hamlets before the Civil War. Husky, usurious, "Doc" believed sharping made the victim sharp. Hence didactic William sharped his own son out of board-money. That son, grateful for sharpness thus acquired, was, is, John Davison Rockefeller, "world's richest man," whose ninetieth birthday comes next week...
...President Eliot's ninetieth birthday celebration on March 20, 1924, a fund was given by graduates for the purpose of purchasing a collection of books for the Widener Library. The annual income of this fund of about $7700 is used in accordance with President Eliot's wishes, as expressed in a letter written in September, 1924, for books on the following subjects...