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Pres. Eliot in Philadelphia April 20

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President Eliot will deliver one of the principal addresses on April 20, at the Franklin Centennial Celebration, to be held at Philadelphia on April 19, 20, and 21. The President's subject will be "Franklin as Printer and Philosopher." The other chief speakers are also Harvard graduates, J. H. Choate '52, and H. H. Furness '54.

The celebration is given by the American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the country. It was founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743, for the propagation of useful knowledge. Franklin was the first secretary of the society and later became its president.

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