Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...MINE WITHIN A MINE. Chapter I. The great city is at rest. The organ-grinders have retired to their downy couch, and the busy hum of trade is still. All is silent. But bark! From yonder splendid mansion peal forth the strains of revelry and mirth. It is the birthday of the fair young heiress, Adelia De Bray. Within is the gay music of the dance, the whirling figures of ravishing beauties, and the sparkling wine. Amidst all the joyous mirth moves Adelia the admired of all admirers. Wearied with constant flattery, she seeks, for a moment, the pure...
...darkest mysteries to the average undergraduate mind that our Faculty should be so backward in paying respect to the memory of great men. Not the slightest observance is paid in this College to Washington's Birthday; the Faculty stopped recitations on the day of Charles Sumner's burial only so long as his corpse was passing the very College precincts, and last Wednesday, when the funeral services of Governor Washburn were being performed in the Chapel no official notice was taken of it by the College, and students - your correspondent among others - were compelled to attend recitations while the bells...
...Longfellow's seventieth birthday was celebrated last week at Bowdoin College. After appropriate ceremonies, the meeting adjourned, to meet again on the eightieth anniversary of the poet...
YESTERDAY being Washington's Birthday, the event was celebrated by examinations in the morning and afternoon. We have always objected to this day being passed over in silence by Harvard College, and it is probably owing to our former remonstrances that the Faculty have chosen this neat and inexpensive manner of celebrating an event to which we all look back with pleasure. We have always been taught to emulate the Father of his Country, and an especially good opportunity to do so was given yesterday. As he was in the habit of cutting apple-trees, we might have cut examinations...
...anniversary of Washington's Birthday should be observed, because upon that day was born a man to whose untiring energy, and disinterested patriotism, the inhabitants of these United States owe their present liberty. It is fitting that this should be brought to our minds, that thereby we may remember that past to which we should look with joy and reverence. We support the keeping of Christmas because it is the anniversary of the birth of our Saviour...