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This composition was written at Eisenstadt in 1761 while Haydn was Kapellmeister under the patronage of the Prince of Esterhazy. It is the oldest autograph score by the composer in existence and lay hidden for many years after its conception. It was revived a few years ago by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Nikisch...
Yesterday afternoon the old elm just east of Harvard Hall was pulled down. The tree was estimated by experts to be about 75 years old. It measured three feet in diameter and stood eighty feet high, being one of the largest and oldest in the Yard...
Major Henry Lee Higginson '55, president of the Harvard Club, will preside. Among the other guests at the head table will be William S. Hall '69, the oldest member of the board of governors of the Harvard Club, Professor Wallace C. Sabine '91, Dean of the Graduate School of Applied Sciences, George Wigglesworth '74, Odin Barnes Roberts '86, and Charles Francis Adams, 2nd., '56, Treasurer of Harvard College...
...Edward Augustus Renouf '38, D.D., rector-emeritus of St. James's Episcopal Church, died at Keene, N.H., yesterday in his ninety-fifth year. Dr. Renouf was the oldest clergyman in the New Hampshire diocese, and was, with the exception of Dr. James L. Wellington '38, of Swansea, the oldest Harvard graduate, the latter being Dr. Renouf's senior in years...
...partisan religions and sects, of every names and form in the whole world today, are slowly dying of dry rot as recently has affirmed a noted clergyman of one of the oldest and largest of the Christian Denominations. Nothing can save them except the cosmopolitan and truly catholic teachings of world-Religion as set forth in this volume...