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We have contacted the actual alumni who were students at the time, serving on the semi-centennial committee.
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Over the years, there's been talk of another time capsule, supposedly buried 50 years ago to mark Kent State's semi-centennial.
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The information continues about the planning of the semi-centennial, the celebration that took place as well.
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We have reiterated the call voted at our Annual Meeting for such enlargement of support as will bring the receipts of this semi-centennial year up to $500,000.
The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 3, March, 1896 Various
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Baker University, at Baldwin, Kansas, gave her an honorary Master's Degree in 1909, its semi-centennial anniversary.
Kansas Women in Literature Nettie Garmer Barker
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This year completes his semi-centennial as a citizen of Cleveland, yet he is still hale and vigorous.
Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men Maurice [Unknown role] Joblin
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When the "old boys" come together in Gore Hall at their semi-centennial Commencement, or the
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various
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We have come now to the semi-centennial year of the Association.
The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 4, April, 1896 Various
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Eventually these quarters in turn became too small, for, at the time of the semi-centennial celebration of 1887, when the need for a new home for the Association was discussed, the membership of 300 was far too large for this room.
The University of Michigan Wilfred Shaw
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Two of them marked her semi-centennial and her seventy-fifth anniversaries, comparatively brief periods, perhaps, when contrasted with Harvard's celebration of her two hundred and fiftieth year, shortly before Michigan signalized her fiftieth, but symbolizing nevertheless an extraordinary and impressive transformation; the progress of a little backwoods college into one of the greatest of modern Universities.
The University of Michigan Wilfred Shaw
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