Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Tuesday afternoon "Colombe's Birthday" will be read at the Browning club which holds its meetings at Hotel Brunswick. Col. T. W. Higginson will read the lines of Ganceline, and Mr. J. J. Hayes the part of Valence. The other parts will be read by well-known students of the poet and the affair will doubtless be an intellectual feast to members of the club. The meeting on Tuesday will close the year's work of the society...
...feature of the Atlantic Monthly for April is the poem written by Oliver Wendell Holmes read at the dinner in honor of James Russell Lowell's seventieth birthday. It has all of Dr. Holmes' grace and felicity of expression. "Passe Rose" Mr. Hardy's interesting serial is concluded in this number, also Miss Bellamy's "Hannah Collinse's Jim." There are several interesting essays on history and politics-among which are the "The People in Government" by H. C. Merwin, "Why our Science Students go to Germany" by S. Sheldon and "A French Bishop of the Fifteenth Century...
...twenty-third annual dinner of the Harvard Club of New York city, held on the evening of February 21, a neat compliment was paid to Hon. Jas. Russell Lowell. The dinner occurred on the eve of Mr. Lowell's seventieth birthday, and during the evening. Mr. Francis O. French, '55, read some impromptu verses in commemoration of this event. The verses were greeted with a great deal of applause, and were followed by the drinking of Mr. Lowell's health to the enthusiastic accompaniment of the Harvard cheer. The verses have never before appeared in print, but feeling that every...
...birthday toast to him who sweetly sang...
...participation in the recent Washington's Birthday scrape at Wesleyan, six students were suspended for the rest of the year, and eleven until May 1st. No action was taken in Hubbard's case...