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...German sailing bark Libelle (Dragon Fly), laden with trade goods and gold, unwarped from Bremen for a year-long westbound voyage to the Orient. Of the 31 souls aboard, five were passengers, among them Charles Lascelles and Madam Anna Bishop, English concert singers of the day. By midwinter Captain Tobias was beating his way around Cape Horn. In January 1866 his anchor dropped in Honolulu's Pearl Harbor. The following months, refurbished and provisioned, the Libelle splashed out of Honolulu with the evening tide, sailed westward into the flaming Hawaiian sunset on the last...
...years 1935-36-37 will be marked in U. S. educational history as a notable centennial season. Celebrated last year was the 30th anniversary of the first U. S. high school, Boston Latin, which was founded in 1635. Celebrated all last summer was the 300th birthday of Harvard, first U. S. college (TIME, Sept. 28). At Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, last week began the year-long observance of the Centenary of the great U. S. educator, Horace Mann...
Relay. Last week's opening ceremonies were the last stage in a concentrated year-long ballyhoo which made the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles, loudest previous sports event in history, seem, by comparison, as quiet as a race between two trained fleas around the brim of a felt hat. Climax was the Torch Relay from Olympia to Berlin which started fortnight ago, after the sun's rays had been used to kindle a fire in the ruins of the Temple of Zeus. At Paracin, Yugoslavia, last week, the flame went out when a runner got a defective torch...
...three occasions during these three concluding days of the year-long commemoration of the 300th anniversary, the alumni will meet as a body. They will hear President Conant, administrative officers and undergraduates describe the policies of the College today...
...last week a bald paunchy septuagenarian marched briskly out of the Treasury Department and into a banquet spread for him by his friends at Washington's Hotel Carlton. That march and meal ended the 49-year-long government career of the man whose name is carved on the cornerstones of more post offices, customs houses, federal court houses and office buildings than that of any other U. S. citizen...